[PD] Gem/Pd crashing in edit mode in osx

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Friday, Nov 21, 2003, at 23:47 Europe/Brussels, chris clepper wrote:

> At 11:37 AM -0800 11/21/03, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> The build system for MacOSX is all Makefiles, so it makes sense to  
>> have a
>> Makefile for GEM too, instead of completely redoing the package  
>> building
>> in a different way.  The Makefile for GEM doesn't have to do anything  
>> but
>> make the .pkg.  This way, its just a matter of copying the packaging
>> stuff from another Makefile and with a few minor changes, it'll work  
>> with GEM.
>
> So you don't want to build GEM from source, but rather incorporate it  
> into the packaging system?  How are you doing this now with the > binary?

The packaging system builds everything from source from the CVS.  Right  
now for GEM, I have been semi-manually packaging and including it, but  
that takes too long.


> I know very little about .pkg building at this point, but I'm guessing  
> the OSX installer is a meta-package and all the externals are packages  
> inside it?

correct.

> Is there any reason why PackageMaker can't be used to build the  
> installer?

When I started with this build system, Apple hadn't released info on  
the command line options for PackageMaker.app.  They have now, so a  
Makefile can now make a .pkg from a file created by PackageMaker.  But  
the current method, using /usr/bin/package, works well and is easy to  
imitate so I don't plan on changing the Makefiles, unless  
/usr/bin/package disappears.

> One note about the GEM builds: you will have to figure out a way to  
> distribute all three builds for each processor type.  The G4 or G5  
> build cannot be run on G3 CPUs or GEM will crash will illegal  
> instruction exceptions.

I think that CPU optimization needs to be tackled on a Pd-wide level.   
Pd would benefit from optimizations on all of the platforms, and all of  
the code.  But to make CPU-optimized releases workable, there needs to  
be one place where you set the target CPU, and everything else checks  
that one place when compiling.

Currently, I am using the G4 version of GEM in the install, since  
that's what I have.  But I haven't compiled GEM in a while.  IIRC, you  
have to use the GUI to enable the G4/Altivec optimiations. If/when I do  
the GEM package, it would only use whatever works from a Makefile.  The  
idea here is to make building installers take up a little of my (or  
anyone's) time as possible, thereby making frequent releases much more  
likely.

.hc



> cgc
>
>> .hc
>>
>>

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