Refactor to allow building against a system SWORD installation
alerque opened this issue · 4 comments
The nested build/install if SWORD inside this module is a problem for distro packaging. I'm currently fudging the rules on Arch Linux to have Ezra Project packaged at all, and I would like to use this package for other things as well.
Please add a way to build this linking to a system installed version of the SWORD library rather than building its own. That way this package can be just the interface, not a duplicate of SWORD.
(Extracted from ezra-bible-app/ezra-bible-app#21).
Would it work for you to steer this behavior with an environment variable? So, if that environment variable would be set before npm install, then the gyp build system would link against the system SWORD library.
Yes I think that would work. It's not ideal, but then again nothing npm does is ;-) I can't think of a better suggestion right now.
@alerque I added you as collaborator. Once you've accepted the invitation I can assign you as reviewer for the pull request that addresses this issue.
@tobias-klein Accepted.