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zeromq / erlzmq2

Erlang binding for 0MQ (v2)
http://zeromq.org/
MIT License
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make zeromq compilation optional #18

Closed schmurfy closed 10 years ago

schmurfy commented 13 years ago

Please add a way to compile the extension against an already compiled zeromq library, I am really afraid of basing any serious work on this library currently thinking of the nightmare it would be to deploy it in production. In my cas I will already have a compiled zeromq somewhere on the system and I would rather uses it instead of recompiling it after pulling it from github :s

(for me a production server would not have git and worse it may not even have any direct internet access)

yrashk commented 13 years ago

Julien, thanks for your input. I understand your concern. Let me think about how can this be done in a way that doesn't break existing behaviour.

schmurfy commented 13 years ago

Having an environment variable allowing to point to the location of an already compiled libzmq.a would be enough I think, something like:

ZMQ_LIB=/path/to/libzmq.a make

Would this be possible ?

yrashk commented 13 years ago

Very likely so.

If you have a patch in mind, please feel free to send a pull request, as it will definitely speed things up here.

schmurfy commented 13 years ago

I am not that great with Makefiles but I will give it a try.