[PD] prefered way to install PD

[august]

> >>you have to generate it first, by running "autoconf" (obviously you need 
> >>to have autoconf installed on your system)
> >
> >
> >there used to be an autogen.sh  script that would do all the autoconf
> >stuff for you.   I played with it for about a half hour, using a couple
> >of different versions of autotools  and got nowhere.
> >
> >Any reason why this "autogen.sh"  is not included?
> 
> which version of pd do you try to build?


I just checked out a fresh cvs from sourceforge.


> 
> "autogen.sh" was never part of vanilla pd.

it used to be included in the cvs afair.

> furthermore, it does not seem to be a "standard way" to build a software 
> package to me ("standard" being one of: "make" or "./configure && make" 
> or "autoconf && ./configure && make" or "aclocal && autoconf && 
> ./configure && make")

I would go with just ./configure && make

autoconf and automake have so many different versions at this point.


> the way to build vanilla pd, is:
> ~> cd ...pd/src
> ~> autoconf
> ~> ./configure
> ~> make
> ~> sudo make install
> 

thanks


> 
> however, "autogen.sh" used to be part of pd-devel.
> afaik, this has been replaced by a scons-based build system.
> the way to build pd-devel (including desire data) is:
> ~> cd ...pd/src
> ~> scons

ok,  many thanks ...  but, I just downloaded the
pd-0.38-4-devel-2.tar.bz2 from sourceforge  (linked from puredata.info)
and it still has the configure, make system.

seems to compile ok now, though.

> 
> (use "scons -h" and/or "scons -H" to find out more about scons)


vielen dank  -august.