Guys, since I haven't got any major feedback on my suggestion of privatizing external libraries FreeSwitch depends upon I guess its time for me to give a practical example of how I would like FreeSwitch to be structured. Lets take libresample-0.1.3 as the simplest case (the meat of it is just 3 files: filterkit.c, resample.c, resamplesubs.c; the rest is precisely the fluff I'd like to get rid of): Anyway, here's what I would like to see in FreeSwitch's SVN instead: extlib/libresample/Makefile.[in|am] [ORIGIN|README] src/filterkit.c src/resample.c src/resamplesubs.c src/filterkit.h src/resample_defs.h [inc|include]/libresample.h ORIGIN (or README) file would describe where the library came from an what is the procedure for manually sync'ing up with the upstream development version (if needed). Makefile.[in|am] would mostly be from the original project (which means most of the time it would a trivial one) feeding off a *single* configure run. We can even introduce specific targets into it so that it does "export" public API header files and object files into a predetermined location for ease of future linking: extlib/lib extlib/include so that -I and -L have to point to a single location only (but still withing our build area which means no messy make install's!). PROS: * much greater control over how we build external libraries, which includes ease of using performance related options, building libraries as archives, etc. * much greater control over source code of the the external libraries (don't have to depend on maintainers to push changes we need ASAP). * everything is in SVN * single ./configure run * no messy make installs screwing up the place where --prefix points to * no LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_RUN_PATH mess to deal with CONS: * everytime we actually need something from the upstream version it would have to be manually sync'ed up with the FreeSwitch SVN (hence ORIGIN|README). And finally -- as far as Anthony's coding speed is concerned it should be pretty transparent ;-), so what do you all think ? Thanks, Roman.