Zachary DeAquila: > Ah! A good example of what I meant in an earlier post about > compile-time vs. configure-time options and how some way to > handle this is needed.
Carl V Streeter: Agreed, but there is quite a bit of work involved in some packages. Some need -D options to cc to configure things. Some have a configure script. You never know what you're getting into. How about, for the specific case of elm, putting out a package which requires gcc, etc. and from postinst invoke a program designed to configure for compilation which then spawns some processes to build and install the thing. Since I don't think dpkg has a file registration mechanism ready, it would probably also be a good idea to include vanilla executables (which might fit the needs of people who only install elm so they can use frm). -- Raul
