On Dec 3, 2017, at 1:04 PM, Dan Wilcox danomatika@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 3, 2017, at 11:46 AM, katja <katjavetter@gmail.com mailto:katjavetter@gmail.com> wrote:
On a platform where building Pd with autotools is just a matter of hitting ./configure && make, the need for a 'self-replicating' binary package seems to be obviated indeed. Frankly I didn't know it is so easy, since INSTALL.txt for 0.48-0 still tells you to generate the configure script. Will 0.48-1 be different in this respect?
Short form: I an be that easy, but the current pd source tarball does not included the generated configure script.
Long form:
It *should* be that easy but it requires the source release to include the generated configure script. This can be done on a developer machine using "make dist" which generates a distribution tarball (even with the version naming), ready to go. If configure and it's m4 stuff are included, then all the user needs is a shell and compiler chain to build the project. That's part of the whole point of autotools.
As a followup, here is a source tarball generated from "make dist": pd-0.48.0.tar.gz http://docs.danomatika.com/pdbuilds/pd-0.48.0.tar.gz It should work on Linux and macOS. We still have some things to iron out for Windows/MinGW.
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