Re: [Plplot-devel] more on Makefile.examples

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Maurice LeBrun wrote:

>  - it'd be a lot better if in the examples dirs, the makefile was named
> "Makefile" instead of "Makefile.examples".  Is this straightforward

There is a name clash in the build area since automake and configure
together process Makefile.am ==> Makefile.in ==> Makefile.  Furthermore,
all the standard examples for automake that I have seen use exactly the
same file name in the build and install areas.  To avoid the name clash
you therefore need a subdirectory.  I have implemented, tested, and committed
that.  I agree it is much better to have Makefile in the installed examples
tree rather than Makefile.examples.


>
>  - it needs a clean target

Done.

The above solution inspired me to sort out creating a build and install area
version of plplot_octave.oct (see recent commit) where again I had to deal
with two distinct files with the same name.  The result is a solution with
no cross-talk between build and installed versions (an issue that is
important to me) and which I believe satisfies the plplot_octave.oct part of
Joao's 'make check' agenda.  I have checked the results with ldd, and, as
expected, the correct library directories are there in each case with no
ambiguity.

I have also checked that the installed version of plplot_octave.oct works
fine.  Joao, can we *please* just leave it at that for now with no more
'make check' related changes until after the release?  I don't want to be
distracted any more from release issues at this critical time.

Alan

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