Package that can work with something in non-free - to build with it or not?

[Hugo van der Merwe <s13361562@bach.sun.ac.za>]

I am currently working on a package that can optionally support scilab.
For the time being I'm not build-depending on scilab, and not building
against it either, as scilab is in non-free. Can I be sure that the
buildd's won't build with scilab? If scilab is installed, the configure 
script will use it. So I should probably look into some --disable-scilab 
type configure parameter?

Furthermore, how is something like this usually handled, "if the user 
wants scilab support, he can rebuild the package himself" ?

Thanks,
Hugo van der Merwe


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