[PD-dev] questions regarding externals-buildlayout (esp. with HID)

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

hi all.

2 questions about the layout of HID in cvs, and 1 about the buildlayout
in general.

1) is it really necessary that the build-system of HID relies on finding
 ../../../packages/Makefile.buildlayout?
i usually don't have the entire pd-cvstree lying around on a system,
which gives a lot of extra work to build this external.
i see the use of central Makefiles which are used for one single
configuration for everything, however i would prefer this to be an
option (like in optional).
would it be possible to include Makefile.buildlayout only if it existed
 (with "-include ../../../packages/Makefile.buildlayout")?
in order to get it right even with that file missing, this would
probably involve to have a fallback copy of it in the local directory
(hear hear!)

2) directories with spaces! would it be ok if i filed a
sourceforge-request to change this to "HID_Utilities_Source"?


more serious:

3) is the use of "find" considered cross-platform enough to replace the
*/*/*.../*.bak constructs in Makefile.buildlayout?
and is the use of the rm's "-r" flag cross-platform? this would simplify
a lot of clean-targets in Makefile.buildlayout.



mfg.asdr.
IOhannes