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@@ -45,25 +45,29 @@ HOWTO
use GNU autotools to manage your own Pd external package.
Files
- $(top_srcdir)/m4
- The directory m4/ should be copied to your top-level package
- directory. See "ax_pd_external.m4" for details.
+ $(top_srcdir)/common
+ The directory common/ includes common code for the autotools
+ packages. Copy it to your top-level package directory.
- $(top_srcdir)/pdexternal.am
- The file pdexternal.am should be copied to your top-level package
- directory See "pdexternal.am" for details.
+ $(top_srcdir)/common/m4
+ Contains m4 macros for autotools. See "ax_pd_external.m4" for
+ details.
- $(srcdir)/mooPdUtils.h (optional)
- The file mooPdUtils.h may be copied to your source-level directory.
+ $(top_srcdir)/common/pdexternal.am
+ May be included in your package's Makefile.am. See "pdexternal.am"
+ for details.
+
+ $(top_srcdir)/common/mooPdUtils.h (optional)
+ The file mooPdUtils.h may be included by your C source files.
Currently, this only provides a PDEXT_UNUSED macro to avoid annoying
gcc warnings under -W.
Running aclocal
- You must pass the "-I m4" flag to aclocal when you call it. For
+ You must pass the "-I common/m4" flag to aclocal when you call it. For
maintainer-mode rebuilding and autoreconf, you should add the following
to your top-level Makefile.am:
- ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
+ ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I $(top_srcdir)/common/m4
See the example package's autogen.sh for a useful wrapper script.
@@ -83,7 +87,7 @@ HOWTO
See the example package's configure.ac for a complete working example.
Makefile.am
- You probably want to include $(top_srcdir)/pdexternal.am in your
+ You probably want to include $(top_srcdir)/common/pdexternal.am in your
Makefile.am(s). This will allow you to build Pd externals as "_PROGRAMS"
targets. In particular, pdext_PROGRAMS targets will be built as
externals and installed in PDEXT_DIR (see above).
@@ -110,10 +114,10 @@ HOWTO
pddoc_DATA = hello-help.pd
ax_pd_external.m4
- The AX_PD_EXTERNAL macro defined in m4/ax_pd_external.m4 is intended to
- perform all common autoconf-level checks and substitutions necessary for
- building Pd external packages on various systems. Among other things,
- this includes:
+ The AX_PD_EXTERNAL macro defined in common/m4/ax_pd_external.m4 is
+ intended to perform all common autoconf-level checks and substitutions
+ necessary for building Pd external packages on various systems. Among
+ other things, this includes:
* Providing --with-FEATURE and --enable-FEATURE arguments such as
--with-pd-dir (see "CONFIGURATION OPTIONS", above).