[PD-dev] cvs external "sprinkler" doesn't compile right, and fix

[John Lamb]

I have been trying to compile the externals from cvs today, and the 
"sprinkler" object halts the compile each time due to an undefined 
environment variable, "PACKAGE_VERSION".  It turns out the makefile for 
sprinkler sets this, but it doesn't get set in the actual 
externals/build/linux/makefile that I use to compile all the externs at 
one time.  I simply took the "DEFS=..." portion from the 
sprinkler/makefile (which defines the PACKAGE_VERSION var, among others) 
and added that to the build/linux/makefile, then added "$(DEFS)" to the 
compiler flags variable in build/linux/makefile.

I don't know what caused this to occur, perhaps this runs on older 
versions of gcc fine?  I also don't know a more graceful solution to 
this problem.  In any case, my specs are: Linux 2.6.3, gcc 3.3.2, fedora 
stable/unstable mix, Athlon, 512Mb ram.  I think the problem is probably 
newer gcc compatibility, since that seems to be the big problem with the 
other source code hiccups in cvs.

Anyway, I hope this helps someone!

-John Lamb