[PD-dev] [PATCH] made automake system kind-of work

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Thu Jul 15 16:27:17 CEST 2010


On Jul 15, 2010, at 10:10 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> On 2010-07-15 16:06, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> FYI: if you remove all makefiles in 'extra' you can replace it with  
>> the
>> extra/Makefile from pd-gui-rewrite-0.43 which builds all objects in
>> 'extra'.  It has the added advantage of working on GNU/Linux, Mac  
>> OS X,
>> MinGW and Cygwin, plus is based on the Makefile template for  
>> libraries.
>> The existing 'extra' makefiles have always been problematic when it
>> comes to anything but GNU/Linux.
>>
>
> true.
> however the extra/Makefile from pd-gui-rewrite is again a big  
> monolithic
> chunk with all files (and by-now non-existant files as well)  
> enumerated.
> it reminds me of the old externs/Makefile for pd-extended.
> that's one reason why i chose not to use that.
>
> fgmasdr
> IOhannes
>


One good feature that a build system should provide is to notify you  
when files are missing.  So if files have been removed from pd/extra  
in 0.43, then the build system should tell you that.  Then you should  
edit the Makefile so it has an up-to-date list of relevant files.

.hc


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