From: slumos@... (Steven Lumos)
Date: 2003-08-12T08:40:25+09:00
Subject: Re: passing --with-X-dir to bundled extensions while building 1.8.0

I said:
> What I would *like* to have is a way to specify them to the top-level
> configure script.

And of course there is one, and it's obvious.  If I had just thought
to blindly try it instead of thinking about it first...  If you say
--with-X-dir=something to configure, that goes into
CONFIG["configure_args"], which mkmf looks at.

Steve