Re: automake , I am is needing help

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 29 December 2008 05:12:09 pl...@pi... wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to follow the tortuous workings of automake to add a new dir
> for svg javascript. I am is needing help ;)

I am a bit confused.
Are you talking about adding a new directory to the cvs source tree?
That has nothing in particular to do with automake.
The commands would be:
    mkdir temp/javascriptdir
    cp $my-new-stuff/* temp/javascriptdir
    cvs add term/javascriptdir
    cvs commit -m 'Add javascriptdir to the source tree'
But you can't do that unless you have write access to the cvs tree.

> I want to copy the use of the postscriptdir and have defined varibable
> javascriptdir but cannnot see how to add this to the list of installdirs
> to get it created and populated.
> 
> term/Makefile:am__installdirs = "$(DESTDIR)$(luadir)"
> "$(DESTDIR)$(postscriptdir)"

Still confused, but perhaps you want:

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
diff -ur gnuplot/term/Makefile.am.in  gnuplot-cvs/term/Makefile.am.in
--- gnuplot-old/term/Makefile.am.in 2008-12-23 11:22:18.000000000 -0800
+++ gnuplot-new/term/Makefile.am.in     2008-12-29 10:44:25.000000000 -0800
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign 1.2h

 EXTRA_DIST = README Makefile.am.in driver.h impcodes.h \
-object.h post.h $(CORETERM) PostScript lua
+object.h post.h $(CORETERM) PostScript lua javascriptdir

 postscriptdir = $(pkgdatadir)/$(VERSION_MAJOR)/PostScript

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

That will ensure that your new directory is included in a tarball of the
distributed package.  I suggest that naming this directory simply "svg"
would be better than "javascriptdir", because it might end up holding
other svg-related things that are not javascript.


 
> maybe someone familiar with this could point me in the right direction.
> 
> I have modified svg.trm to read in a script from that dir and insert it
> as a <script> tag at the top of the SVG output. That much works so I
> have a mechanism within gnuplot to add interactive content to svg.
> 
> 
> thanks , Peter.


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Ethan A Merritt