On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 09:40:13PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 09:51:43PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > > These options were introduced in the following commit: > > > > > > commit b2db2c2acf88fc21d844cebb3b58234b93399924 > > > Author: Patrice Dumas <[email protected]> > > > Date: 2025-07-16 08:29:08 +0200 > > > > > > Integrate Perl SWIG interface in the build system > > > > > > Are these options really useful? > > > > --enable-perl-install-mode allows to change the Perl modules > > installation directories, using a similar interface to MakeMaker. I did > > not have any other idea to give the same interface, which translates to > > those possibilities for installation. This looks necessary to me for > > the installation of Perl modules that are supposed to be regular Perl > > modules (and not hidden modules, as are the Texinfo::* modules). > > > > Then the --enable-install* actually does the same as --libdir and so on, > > but for the Perl modules installation directories. In the default case, > > these directories are taken from Perl -V, but I think that we need to > > make them customizable. > > Thanks for explaining. So as I understand it, it is for installing public > Perl modules, as would be installed by a MakeMaker build system (a frequently > used build system for Perl). In order to match how Perl modules are usually > installed, these directories should be configurable. There seemed > to be a module called Texinfo.pm which was built under tta/swig/perl/ > which is probably what this is for.
Exactly, it is for this module and the associated XS module. They implement the SWIG interface in Perl. > The only suggestion I have to make this slightly tidier is to move the > options to the end of the --help message to keep them separate from the > other options. They are at the end of the tta/configure messages (there is --enable-year2038 in the end, but it is probably automatically added), but not of the main configure. I can have a try to make the two configure messages more similar. -- Pat
