[PD] prefered way to install PD

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

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On Nov 14, 2006, at 7:30 PM, august wrote:

>>>> 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 afaik, this has been replaced by a scons-based build system.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.
>
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