At Mon, 7 Jun 2010 22:59:51 GMT, Karl Berry wrote: > I think the most important thing to support is configure > --prefix=/somewhere. Probably that, and just about everything, can > simply be passed to the subdirs. So the job of top level > configure/makefile would be to loop over all supported subdirs and call > configure/make for each. > > Based on my experience with TeX Live, I expect it would also be > greatly appreciated if it was possible to say > configure --disable-foobar > to explicitly disable building of any package foobar for whatever reason.
Good idea.
