From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17970 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2002 23:47:52 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 23 Mar 2002 23:47:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 22376 invoked by alias); 23 Mar 2002 23:47:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 16888 Received: (qmail 22365 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2002 23:47:44 -0000 Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 18:47:15 -0500 From: Clint Adams To: Bart Schaefer Cc: Borsenkow Andrej , Zsh hackers list Subject: Re: PATCH: zsh/pcre module building Message-ID: <20020323234715.GA561@dman.com> References: <1016807054.3021.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1020323195712.ZM29012@candle.brasslantern.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1020323195712.ZM29012@candle.brasslantern.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i I didn't mean to neglect this, but I was whisked away on a sudden impromptu ski trip, and this is possibly my only opportunity to read e-mail before returning to civilization. AB> - I hoped to create implementation that would share configure cache and AB> make is possible to list help from every module's configure script using AB> top-level configure --help and pass parameters to every module's AB> configure script using top-level configure. I think this might be more useful if there were a way to build modules without the zsh sources (such as a library, header files, and possibly some site-specific configuration data). Bart> I believe Clint suggested that we do a configure-time test for whether Bart> this works, and if not then include the shared object's dependencies in Bart> the top-level link. But his patch doesn't do that, yet, I think. No, it doesn't, and I can only theorize on how to test for such a condition, since I doubt I have access to any such platforms.