On Sunday, Oct 19, 2003, at 09:57 America/New_York, gml@xs4all.nl wrote:
I think I understand the build system a little bit now. What do I do with the help patches. There are copies in the build directory. And the linux makefile uses those, but the darwin makefile uses those in the original directories.
The old style was to copy all of the helpfiles into externals/build/src. Going forward, the helpfiles should be copied directly from the source by the Makefile so that we only need to maintain one copy of each helpfile. MacOS X and Windows work this way (Windows does it in the Inno pd.iss file instead of the Makefile), but Debian needs to be updated to the new way. In the meantime, if you want your helpfiles in Debian, you need to also add them to externals/build/doc.
And I guess I should set the helpsymbol in the source, didn't the default change to help-myexternal.pd with 0.37?
You actually should not use class_sethelpsymbol() unless your helpfile has a different name than your object, according to Miller. So if your external is called 'myexternal' and your help patch is called either 'help-myexternal.pd' or 'myexternal-help.pd' (the preferred style), then you don't need class_sethelpsymbol(), pd will find it automatically.
.hc
Gerard
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