[PD-dev] general makefile question

[András Murányi]

If you want to test it on various platforms at once, please msg me and we
can easily set it up in buildbot (which is not the effective autobuild
system yet, but it's quite worked out).
We will just need to have the stuff available in some kind of repo.

Andras

2010/12/3 IOhannes zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>

> On 12/02/2010 09:40 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> >
> > On Dec 2, 2010, at 3:11 PM, Bryan Jurish wrote:
> >
> >> Maybe I'm misreading this thread, but wasn't there something like:
> >>> something like 'PD_LDFLAGS="-Wl,--export-dynamic  -shared $(LDFLAGS)"'
> >>> and then consequently using $(PD_LDFLAGS) in the linking stage?
>
> yes, this would be my suggestion.
>
> >
> > Sorry for the complaint, the bug in question cost me a full day of time
> > re-doing really unfun stuff.  That's a full day of my free, unpaid
> > time.  Code has bugs, therefore it needs testing, that's all I'm saying.
>
> sure.
> however, in order to properly test, it would be great to have a test
> defined (even if it only was an instruction like, apply your changes to
> library X (because this uses feature A) and library Y (using feature A &
> B), then run
> $ make
> $ make clean
> $ make install
> $ make uninstall
> $ make install DESTDIR="/tmp"
> $ make uninstall DESTDIR="/tmp"
> $ make dist
> and see if all this succeeds.
>
> doing a "thorough test" on the template Makefile without having a test
> defined, is probably taking more time then a full day (and yes, i do a
> lot of work in my free unpaid time as well)
>
> >
> > So I say take the template Makefile and go nuts with it, fix all the
> > bugs add features, but do it in a branch, thoroughly test it, and then
> > we take it from there.
>
> i switched the build-system of iem/syslog to my modded version of the
> template Makefile and afaict, "everything" works:
>
>
> https://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pure-data/trunk/externals/iem/syslog/Makefile
>
> "everything" excludes the 'uninstall' target (non-existant it seems) and
> an unnecessary complicated procedure to install into
>  /usr/lib/pd/extra
> (though i won't change that for now)
>
>
> sidenote: in this makefile i am using ALL_*FLAGS rather than PD_*FLAGS;
> i have no opinion whatsoever on the exact prefix of the variables; ALL_*
> is "suggested" on the Gnu standards page, and PD_* being more "Pd" than
> "Pd-external".
>
> probably "PDEXT_" would be a proper prefix.
>
>
> >>
> >> @IOhannes: sorry about my bogus "+=" suggestion; posted without testing
> >> it first :-/
>
> np.
> it's what i would have suggested myself as well, just to find out that
> it didn't work.
> i prefer one person to find out and communicate, to two persons having
> to go through all steps to find out.
>
>
>
> mgfasd
> IOhannes
>
>
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