[Vegastrike-devel] Total Conversion base data -- HELP!

[Daniel A. <dan...@us...>]

Please, anyone with any autoconf/make/automake experience just have a look, I'm
pretty much stuck on these guys now :-/

A repost of a form post:
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Well, in between various other jobs I've been steadilly plugging away at getting
a good data system working for any potential modders/current modders.

http://black-paralysis.sourceforge.net/bp.tar.gz

Basically, the contents of this tar.gz file is the absolute minimum, data wise,
that vegastrike requires to start up without failing. In addition, there is the
skeleton to a build system, designed to make it easy to release the data etc.

The build system is not finished, for the primary reason that I have run into a
roadblock in terms of my own experience woth the GNU tools. Before I can finish
it, I need help with some things. If anyone can offer advice/help for any of the
following, it would be greatly appreciated.


      1) As much as I tried (you wouldn't believe the pain), I couldn't get the
compression ratio for pk3 volumes read from a shell variable. I believe 'make'
might handle shell variables differently to many tools, but I'm not sure.

      2) I also don't want the make command to make each colume to be dependent
on the type. I don't want the command varying between 'make communications.pk3'
and 'make communications.vsr' depending on what sort of volume the builder
selected. But if I just leave it as 'make communications' make gets confused,
as it is hte name of a directory. Is there any way of avoiding this, while
keeping the names used in the make commands obvious?

      3) I want to compile a set of python files into bytecode (.pyo) ..... how?

      4) Any other comments/suggestions on the current system would be very
welcome ... as I said, I'm no expert on any of these tools. What is there is
probably an ugly hack, so any help cleaning it up would be nice



Anyway, so that's what I need help on. Once that's done, I'll finish it up so
that we have a nice build system for data sets that can be used for new, or
existing, mods.


Dan.a