Miller Puckette writes:
dont know about install, miller said something a while ago about that itwont install, i havent tried it. why would it not thoug?
I think "make install" doesn't work on Debian (minor compatibility problems) but someone, I forgot who, has reported how you can change the makefile for Debian. I think that in RedHat you can just "make install" although I've never done that, since I don't see any advantage to it...
I had to add the installation stuff, because otherwise it wouldn't have been possible to include it into Debian (nor would it be possible to include it into any other distribution).
The install -D is a makefile bug on Redhat too (AFAIK).
Differences between distributions are primarily caused by libraries used with pd (like tcl/tk and libc).
Ah, and ... yes ... the advantage of the make install is simply, that different users can work with the same pd binary and documentation.
Most Linux users are used to the "make install" step, so I think we should include Miha's patch. (and the empty obj directory )
guenter