[PD-dev] can't seem to get new build system to work

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Thu Nov 22 19:48:30 CET 2012


On Nov 22, 2012, at 9:16 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:

> On 11/22/2012 04:31 AM, Miller Puckette wrote:
>> To pd-dev -
>> 
>> I might be missing something... under Fedora 17 (the newest I believe), when
>> I try to build Pd using the "new build system" I get:
>> 
>> This is off a clean git checkout.  Are there build-system patches out there
>> that I should be applying first, or anyway, what am I missing?
> 
> 
> intall "libtool".
> (this is only needed on people using the git-version; for any releases, configure should be pre-generated by the other, so libtool is no longer needed)

The new build system provides the very handy 'make dist' which generates a proper source tarball for release.  It should handle generating the ./configure and whatever else needs doing.

By following the autotools style rather than hacking our own, we get a lot of extra goodies like this.

.hc


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