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