Re: Tests, demos, and all that
- From: Karl Nelson <kenelson ece ucdavis edu>
- To: Trog <trog gtk org>
- Cc: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>, gtk-devel-list gnome org,kenelson elm ece ucdavis edu
- Subject: Re: Tests, demos, and all that
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 16:17:05 -0700
> I think makefile.am would be overkill for these examples. All the
> makefiles are extremely simple and I've never had a report of any
> problems with them across platforms.
>
> Flattening the directory structure to artificially add automake
> support would be a lose, IMHO. It just doesn't seem to be required.
> There may be a requirement to makefile.in (yes, thats what I meant)
> the top-level examples makefile, but I'm not sure.
Perhaps you should look at the system which Gtk-- is using for
their examples. The configure builds a example.conf file
which contains all the makefile variables to compile the
examples. The examples are then in individual directories
with their associated files and a very simple Makefile.
If an install is done for placing the examples in a special
place for an rpm file, the rpm maintainer just replaces the
examples.conf file with one with variables more approprate
for a demo install.
We switched to this from the pure automake like system
because the automake took too long to rerun (making development
a pain) and because not using libtool for the examples
forced installations (also making developing a pain).
This simplified our lives a good bit. And thus I would
recommend it. I would be happy to provide further details.
--Karl
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