Re: Why does frysk have so many configure scripts?

[Andrew Cagney <cagney at redhat dot com>]

Stepan Kasal wrote:
> Hello,
>   frysk-core, frysg-gui, etc, are treated as autonomous sub-packages,
> each having its own configure.ac.  Why is that?
>   
To better compartmentalize the build:
- frysk-gtk, and frysk-gui only have GTK dependencyes, hence frysk's 
core (frysk-core) can be built without gtk dependencies
- frysk-core and frysk-gui have no native code (that's separated into 
sys, imports, and gtk) (ok in theory, I see there's been some bitrot :-)).
Andrew
> I can imagine several reasons:
> 1) There is (or will be) a need to build the individual parts
> separately.
> 2) The configure.ac might be too different.
> 3) historic reasons
>
> I will be grateful for any info.
>
> Thanks,
> 	Stepan Kasal
>