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On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 11:03:08PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 07:55:31PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > The main use case I am concerned about is when XS modules are disabled.
> > Even if --disable-perl-xs is given to "./configure", a large amount of time
> > is spent building dynamically linked libraries under the tta/ directory
> > (including gnulib). This is pointless for users who are only going to
> > use the pure Perl implementations. Is there no way to disable the C code
> > being built under tta?
>
> Maybe if disable XS is set and --enable-additional-checks is not passed
> we would not recurse in tta/C?
>
> As a side note, the SWIG python interface can be built with disable XS,
> so it would need the same conditionals.
After some thinking, maybe a possibility would be to recurse in C if
either XS is enabled, --enable-additional-checks is passed or any SWIG
interface is built, as SWIG interfaces may work and provide an
interesting interface even if XS is disabled.
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