Re: [Denemo-devel] updated Makefile.am

[Richard Shann]

On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 08:16 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 08:32 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 10:13 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > > I updated Makefile.am to include CheckPitchs as a symlink into
> > > educational. I read up on debian package management and found out as
> > > long as you change this in the rules file everything is fine with out
> > > install_data_hook from
> > > 
> > > $(MAKE)
> > > 
> > > to:
> > > 
> > > $(MAKE) install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/denemo
> > > 
> > > 
> > > This sets up a staging directory to temporarily install into while
> > > making. 
> > Hmm, does this mean we cannot simply create symlinks below actions/menus
> > and have them appear in the final installation? 
> 
> I don't know if that would work. I can try it. I think I read somewhere
> git supports symlinks. 
> 
> > Would the procedure be
> > to create the symlink and then add a line to denemo/Makefile.am?
> 
> They method I have seen documented is to create symlinks by placing a
> line in denemo/Makefile.am. Then the link is created on a make install. 
I get it - that would be ok (just one thing to do), though not quite so
obvious as creating the symlink in git & letting the make system take
care of what to do with it.
> ./autogen.sh and ./configure needs to be run first though. this is not
> big deal unless we are creating script files every day that require
> symlinks. Then it would be painful to go through these hoops. 
> 
> > If so, perhaps we could have a script to run to fix things up when
> > installing a symlink?
> 
> I just spent 2 days writing a script to recursively generate
> Makefiles.am's in the actions directory. Then I stumbled on this
> $DESTDIR that is used for staging that would work with are
> install_data_hook. Oh well. I learned alot about bash scripting in the
> process so it was not all for not. 
> 
> > > 
> > > I also updated src/Makefile.am to include all the scheme related .h
> > > files that were not there before. 
> > I haven't done a fresh installation in ages - was it broken until now?
> 
> These files were not being included when you type in:
> 
> make dist
> 
> There are now.
Oh, right, I see.
>  I am preparing things to be packaged up. I don't know how
> close we are to release but I just wanted to make sure everything is all
> set up and ready to go when we get there.  
Yes, that's a good move. We do have a lot more to offer, and should
release, but I think there may be one or two regressions still lurking.

Well, one I already reported is that typically on startup the
Notes/Rests menu has items that don't belong there in the active mode,
which would confuse a newcomer. And, of course, there is the windows
build, we really need someone to take that on.

I'll see about fixing the Notes/Rests menu on startup. I can probably
fix that with a quick mode shuffle during the init.denemo script - I
have fixed the grace note intialization bug that way. Or maybe the mode
choice is being made too early.

Richard


> Jeremiah
> 
> > > configure.in was updated to add support for smylinking in a Makefile.am
> > I'm glad you are on top of this stuff!
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
>