[PD] prefered way to install PD

august august at develop.ment.org
Tue Nov 14 22:09:00 CET 2006


> >On 14/11/2006, at 17.51, august wrote:
> >
> >>I just downloaded the latest CVS of pd, but there isn't even an
> >>autogen.sh or configure script to run and get the build going.
> >
> >Did you check /path/to/pure-data/pd/ for either INSTALL.txt or README.txt?
> >In the INSTALL.txt it says:
> >
> >--------------
> >Change to "src" subdirectory.
> >
> >type "./configure", possibly adding flags as follows:
> >
> 
> the problem is, that in the CVS there is no "configure" file in ./src 
> (and  it is also missing in recent source tarballs)

exactly.

> 
> you have to generate it first, by running "autoconf" (obviously you need 
> to have autoconf installed on your system)


there used to be an autogen.sh  script that would do all the autoconf
stuff for you.   I played with it for about a half hour, using a couple
of different versions of autotools  and got nowhere.

Any reason why this "autogen.sh"  is not included?

-august.




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