RFC: add --with-cacao-src-dir option

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/10/1 Robert Schuster <thebohemian at gmx.net>:
> Hi,
> attached is a patch that adds an option to specify a source directory
> (rather than a tarball) to the cacao sources.
>
> The reason I want to have this option is that in OpenEmbedded the
> environment downloads, checks (md5 + sha256 sums)
> and unpacks the source. With the proposed option we could support that.
>
> If this patch is OK I would also like to see it in IcedTea7.
>
> ChangeLog:
>
> 2009-10-01  Robert Schuster  <robertschuster at fsfe.org>
>
>    * configure.ac: Added --with-cacao-src-dir option.
>    * acinclude: New macro AC_CHECK_WITH_CACAO_SRC_DIR.
>    * Makefile.am: Copy Cacao sources when USE_ALT_CACAO_SRC_DIR is used.
>

I'm surprised we don't already have this.  It looks sane to me.
Assuming you've tested a build with this, it's good to go in.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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