[PD-dev] Re: PD externals Debian packaging

[guenter geiger]

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Cool. I did manage to build it this way, and I'm thankful for a
> cleaner install. I will have to find all my old externals now,
> though.

You are brave, actually I forgot to add several things to CVS that
are on my local hardisk only.

> Some observations/bugs:
>
> * OSC.pd* does not end in in pd-osc, but in pd-externals. pd-osc is
>   practically empty here. I'm not sure, what causes this
> * zexy can't find g_canvas.h.
> * there is a "../doc/" in build/linux/makefile, that is not found:
> install-doc:
>         @test -d $(prefix)/lib/pd/doc/5.reference || mkdir -p $(prefix)/lib/pd/doc/5.reference
>         # build fails here:
>         cp -r ../doc/* $(prefix)/lib/pd/doc/5.reference

I hope  this is fixed now.

> > in order to build the footils, it would be the best if I had some
> > general makefile in the footils directory.
> > I can do it, but I would be happier if you would do it.
> > You can await that there is an already compiled flext library
> > in grill/flext, and compile/link it against that.
>
> I changed the flext externals to use CVS-flext. I also started a
> footils toplevel Makefile now, but actually I cannot write Makefiles,
> I always copy->paste->fix my makefiles, so if someone would give me a
> helping hand here, I would be thankful.
>
> This is the current makefile on pd-CVS :(
>
> #!/usr/bin/make -f
>
> all:
> 	make -C flext-iiwu
> 	make -C shabby
> 	make -C syncgrain
>
> clean:
> 	make -C flext-iiwu clean
> 	make -C shabby clean
> 	make -C syncgrain clean
>
> # install: ???


Good, I am taking the freedom to add the install target.

>
> Regarding rx7~: This is a nice external, but it is a hell to compile,
> because currently one needs to build the whole rx-saturno program first.
> Until I extract the necessary source files from rx-saturno, I would
> say, that rx7~ isn't really buildable at the moment. So it is not
> suitable for inclusion into a pd-externals package IMO.

Ok, we might add it later.

>
> BTW: Is there a pd-0.36 on sourceforge, yet?

No, its on my TODO list, ..

Guenter