Re: 'make distcheck' has problems with the wxt files

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Timoth=E9e Lecomte wrote:
> Timoth=E9e Lecomte wrote:
>> Ethan Merritt wrote:
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>>> On Friday 16 June 2006 04:33 pm, you wrote:
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>>>> Ethan Merritt wrote:
>>>>         =20
>>>>> Procedure:
>>>>> ./prepare
>>>>> ./configure --readline=3Dgnu
>>>>> make distclean
>>>>>
>>>>> Non-fatal error message during the "make check" part
>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------
>>>>>   Can't load PNG icon(s) of the toolbar.
>>>>>              =20
>>>> I can only solve that by using XPM files included at compile time.
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>>> I don't see why that should be.  Isn't it just a matter of setting=20
>>> an environmental variable
>>> during the "make check" run so that the icons are picked up
>>> from the build directory rather than their eventual install
>>> directory?
>>> That's what it does with GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR (to pick up gnuplot_x11).
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>> Oh yes, I forgot that option. I can do that.
>>
>> Timoth=E9e
>>  =20
> Hmm. It turns out not to be as easy as it seems.
Well, with the help of the wxWidgets guys on IRC, I finally came up with=20
a very nice solution, which combines both simplicity, small executable=20
size, and no path nightmare :

You can embed a PNG file in the source code after having converted to a=20
C array. Thus you profit from the compression of the PNG format=20
(compared to including XPM files) and you don't have to care about the=20
paths as the files are included at compile time.

The size of the executable really does not change much :

- before : 2785700 bytes
- after : 2786862 bytes

... 1162 bytes, I think we can afford that instead of an ugly code to=20
retrieve the paths from different ways ...

I will commit that soon.

Timoth=E9e