Re: [Pipmak-Devel] The Pipmak Make setup for Linux

[Christian W. <cwa...@gm...>]

Aidan Gauland wrote:
> I'll take over building the Linux binary release, if that would make things
> easier. 

That would be very welcome, let's see how that goes. One of the main 
reasons why I release so rarely is the effort it takes to build and test 
on all platforms. Distributing that burden onto more shoulders should 
make things faster. (It also means more management duties for me, 
getting away a bit from my hermit programmer attitude. We'll see how I 
cope with that. :) )

If you tell me your SourceForge user name (make one at 
<http://sourceforge.net/account/registration/> if you don't already have 
one), I'll give you write access to the SVN repository.

>> I don't see a Makefile here, so I can't comment in detail...
> 
> I'll send that now.

I haven't tested it, but it looks OK. If you commit it, don't forget to 
update Building.txt. One thing I wonder, wouldn't it be more elegant to 
do the uncomment-this-comment-out-that sections using ifs and a variable 
set on the command line (like 'version' and 'dependencies')?

> And the wrapper script.

That looks like it only runs if the current working directory is the 
directory that contains pipmak-bin and libs. Is that acceptable?

>> That seems to have been the usual approach for closed-source games. 
>> However, I seem to remember Gabriele Greco posting that he had some 
>> problems with that because some newer distributions used that variable 
>> for system purposes, or something. Have you happened on this in your 
>> research?
> 
> I've not heard of that.  I thought Linux systems used something else.  But
> even if that is a problem, I can easily avoid that, by appending to that
> variable, rather than overwriting it.

For reference, since I just have it in front of me, that post is here: 
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.sdl/35714/focus=35778>

> And by the way, I tried searching the SDL mailing list archives, but it 
> wasn't working for me.

What archive were you using? Gmane works fine for me: 
<http://search.gmane.org/?query=&author=Gabriele+Greco&group=gmane.comp.lib.sdl&sort=date&DEFAULTOP=and> 
(I hope Gabriele doesn't mind me using him as a generic search term, but 
it seems that he reliably has at least one post in every thread relevant 
to this topic :) )

  -Christian