Dan, the new documentations are great!
Is it the case that Miller switched from 'old build system'
(makefile.mac etc.) to autotools between 0.47-* and 0.48-*? That would
explain why a simple rebuild within the app bundle was feasible at the
time of PdCon16~, while it is not even technically possible currently.
The makefile.mac is a source file, while makefile(s) from an autotools
build system are not, so no way to 'cd to the source directory and hit
make' as it was phrased in the PdCon presentation.
I'm slowly starting to understand that the lost option to rebuild
within the app bundle is a logical consequence of switching from one
build method to the other. And including the complete source files is
of no use then. So I rest my case!
By the way I wonder if the same is going on with the Windows package?
Katja
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Dan Wilcox <
danomatika@gmail.com> wrote:
And to clarify, this "I guess what I don't understand is the need for both a
source tarball and a .app which includes all the sources." does not mean I
am against making any changes and am against source distributions. It's only
a question really as I've not needed that kind of feature, personally.
On Aug 15, 2017, at 2:18 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika@gmail.com> wrote:
Also, the steps are outlined in the greatly updated INSTALL.txt:
https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/blob/master/INSTALL.txt
On Aug 15, 2017, at 2:15 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika@gmail.com> wrote:
One thing to note: IOhannes and I removed the generated autotools files
(configure, m4 stuff, Makefile, Makefile.in) so the source tarball should
behave without having to change anything by hand. The configure script was
*greatly* updated to facilitate this as well. It should work whether inside
the .app or not.
I guess what I don't understand is the need for both a source tarball and a
.app which includes all the sources. It should be possible now to build Pd
on Mac 10.6 to 10.12 (and soon 10.13) with the same steps.
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