[PD] building pd-extended from SVN

Ivica Ico Bukvic ico at vt.edu
Fri Dec 3 05:13:13 CET 2010


On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 23:04 -0500, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
> FYI,
> 
> Ended-up "touching" fake help-files to get through this one--this
> definitely looks like a build script bug. Now that the whole tarball is
> successfully built, main tarball installer (the one that is packaged
> with the tarball, fails with an error when it tries to install
> $n-help.pd file from the iemlib as it tries to interpret $n as a
> variable:
> 
> install: cannot stat `lib/pd-extended/extra/iemlib/-help.pd': No such
> file or directory
> 
> Script has:
> 
> 	install -p 'lib/pd-extended/extra/iemlib/$n-help.pd'
> '$(prefix)/lib/pd-extended/extra/iemlib/$n-help.pd'
> 
> How would one make the install script ignore the $ sign? (sorry I am
> terrible with shell scripting).

FWIW, tried adding backslash prior to $ and that works on command-line,
but not in the Makefile...




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