On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Simon Perreault wrote:

> On Wednesday 22 June 2005 04:44, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > This could be run and determined automatically by the autoconf/automake
> > couple, automake supports conditional compilation (i. e. depending on
> > autoconf findings, link another module into a program, or something like
> > that).
> 
> Yes, that would be nice. However, I personally don't have enough time to do 
> this cleanly. The edit-the-makefile-if-you-have-a-broken-PAM solution 
> satisfies me.

I would hate to lose the simplicity of the Makefile approach for the 
plugin tree.  I think one of the important reasons for the plugin tree in 
the first place is to provide a venue for extensions that doesn't inherit 
all of the build complexity of the main tree.

James


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