[PD-dev] svn-repository general question

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 19, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Martin Peach wrote:

> On 2011-02-19 11:29, Ingo Randolf wrote:
>> Hello&  thank you for the answer.
>>
>>>> in the subfolder ./trunk/pd i can read the INSTALL.TXT file...  
>>>> which tells me to make a ./configure in /trunk/pd/src ...
>>>
>>> this INSTALl.txt is
>>> a) outdated
>>
>> i thought so.
>>
>>> b) meant for the source release(!) rather than an SVN-snapshot
>>>
>>> the latter means: it is considered bad style to put anything  
>>> "generated"
>>> (mostly binaries, but also scripts, like "configure") into VCS.  
>>> hence
>>> configure (which is generated from configure.ac) is missing in the  
>>> SVN.
>>
>> ok.
>>
>>> to generate everything needed in order to run "configure" (btw,  
>>> nowadays
>>> this is in .../pd rather than .../pd/src) just run (in .../pd):
>>> $ ./autogen.sh
>>
>> so, since autogen.sh is also a script, it is not included in the  
>> svn-snapshot...?
>> can you please tell me what to do, if i want to compile the  
>> snapshot then?
>> - copy the scripts into?? or better copy the source out of the svn- 
>> maintained folder, and copying the scripts needed to create the  
>> configure script... etc...?
>>
>> where do i get those scripts from...? copying them from a source- 
>> release?
>> copying the snapshot-sources into a source-release??
>>
>> is there a step-by-step tutorial for compiling a svn-snapshot?
>>
>
> I was using this:
> http://puredata.info/docs/developer/BuildingPdExtended
> But recently I have been unable to build Pd this way because trunk  
> is inconsistent ATM.
> I think the idea is to choose a version in /branches and build that,  
> starting in the packages directory. It worked for me with Pd- 
> extended 0.42.5 on linux at least. For the latest versions of  
> externals build them separately from trunk/externals.


Yes, its true, its a bit of a mess.  We haven't figured out out to  
bridge from git to svn very well yet, and both pure-data and pd- 
extended are now developed out of git.

If you want to build like the nightly builds, then use the 'rsync'  
method of getting the source.

.hc

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