Re: automake , I am is needing help

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

On Monday 29 December 2008 13:43:48 pl...@pi... wrote:
> Ethan Merritt wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> No, that will have to be done later to set up any fixed files to be
> distributed like the postscript files but for now I have created them
> locally.
> 
> What I want to do in ensure the new dir is created and installed by
> 'make install'. It would seem it has to get included in am__installdirs
> but I cant see how.

The attached patch should do it.
Season to taste if the files are called something other than *.js





> 
> thanks.
> 
> > 
> >> 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
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742