From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to ship native modules? Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 18:59:55 +0200 Message-ID: <83o9xvo4xg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83a89gq3us.fsf@gnu.org> <8360k4q0yx.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1487698511 12276 195.159.176.226 (21 Feb 2017 17:35:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:35:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 21 18:35:07 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cgELC-0002l6-9d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 18:35:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47224 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cgELI-0005Qx-1w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:35:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52093) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cgDnl-00063L-Pj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:00:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cgDni-0002oh-Oy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:00:33 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36696) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cgDni-0002oX-M7; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:00:30 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2127 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cgDnh-00006j-VN; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:00:30 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 21 Feb 2017 09:44:39 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:212526 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 09:44:39 -0500 > > > You can provide a small Makefile that the user will have to invoke in > > order to compile the C source. > > The user doesn't even have to invoke it: package-install can invoke it > (indirectly) by having something akin to > > (eval-when-compile (shell-command "make")) > > in one of the Elisp files. Yes, of course. Provided that the 'make' doesn't need any command-line options that only human can deduce (depends on how clever and reliable the Makefile is).