Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath svn - revision 42 - files for autotools, nsis

[Holger L. <de...@la...>]

Hi David,

On Wednesday 04 October 2006 03:49, David Bruce wrote:
> I tried using a fresh checkout from svn.  If I deleted these files
> (locally), ./configure did not work, so for now I have left them in svn.
> Maybe I am supposed to run something before ./configure to autogenerate
> these files?

autogen.sh from tuxtype looks like this:

----------------------
#!/bin/sh
aclocal && autoheader && autoconf && automake --add-missing --copy
----------------------

You need automake-1.9 and autotools-dev for this to work.


> > <kaol> Makefile.am and src/Makefile.am should be added, at least
> They are now in svn.

good.

> > Then I have another problem, "make clean" needs config.status, but this
> > is autogenerated. And I do call "make clean" in my debian-build scripts.
> >
> > <h01ger> kaol, or not. i call "make clean" in the clean target and this
> > fails (with the files from svn). if i run "./configure" before "make
> > clean", it works. does config.status belong in svn?
> > <kaol> one convention that I have seen is to have some sort of autogen.sh
> > in svn, which will generate all those autogenerated files, and that there
> > would be no expectation to have anything work after an export before that
> > is run <h01ger> a hackish workaround would be to run ./configure in the
> > clean target first, but that seems too hackish to me.
> > <kaol> perhaps doing automake;autoconf;aclocal;libtoolize (in some order,
> > with some flags) would make sense...
> > <kaol> sorry, being busy with other stuff now
> > * h01ger wonders what to do. basically all clean target in the Makefile
> > call the clean-recursive target :-/
>
> I don't know enough to help here.

I'll see what I can do here...

> The latest commit includes Yves' diff for nsis integration (more reading to
> do!).  It seems to build and install OK with ./configure and so forth,
> but "make install" creates a blizzard of error messages that seem to be
> caused by the hidden .svn files.  Nonetheless, the program gets installed
> and seems to work properly.

maybe you can make "make install" ignore those files?


regards,
	Holger