Hi Brian,
Thanks for the update.
I plan to synchronise the version information with Nixpkgs-libre, to
keep it up to date. I have a script that does that.
I don't understand, but then, maybe I don't need to.
Since it doesn't need a top-level makefile/configure script we are
free to add our own (to handle anything like ./configure
--disable-video or whatever).
I think the most important thing to support is configure
--prefix=/somewhere. Probably that, and just about everything, can
simply be passed to the subdirs. So the job of top level
configure/makefile would be to loop over all supported subdirs and call
configure/make for each.
Based on my experience with TeX Live, I expect it would also be
greatly appreciated if it was possible to say
configure --disable-foobar
to explicitly disable building of any package foobar for whatever reason.
karl
