Re: feedback requested for makemake.in patch to invoke NSIS

[Jack U. <jd...@gm...>]

On Nov 13, 2007 11:11 AM, Sam Steingold <sd...@gn...> wrote:
>
> both "make distrib" and "make nsis" remove distdir.
> this means that it has to be created twice if the user wants
> both zip and exe.
> the easy way is to put "makensis ../install.nsi || true" in the
> distrib target.
> another option can be to add "makensis ../install.nsi" in distrib
> only if nsis is found on the system or if an explicit
> --with-nsis-prefix was supplied to makemake.

This latter approach sounds good, so I will revise my patch
accordingly.

> how expensive is makensis? does it take a lot of time? does it
> create windows?

The time required is in the same range (or less) than what
zip requires to create the distrib archive, at least in my
experience so far. The 'makensis' executable is purely
text-mode as far as I know; the install directory has a
separate 'makensisw' for point-and-click access.

> if it is relatively cheap, we can call "makensis" in
> "distrib" always.

OK, thanks for your comments!

-- 
Jack Unrue