[Gretl-devel] Re: Small Windows build hiccup
On Mon, 11 Nov 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 11.11.2019 um 00:03 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> Maybe better: I've amended pkgconf.sh so that it ensures the "PREFIX"
> directory gets created.
Thanks. Would it be an option to put these shell scripts into git, too?
It's not totally clear to me why install-runtime-gtk3.sh.in is in git
but things like pkgconf.sh aren't.
Possible, yes, but a bit awkward. The existing "*.in" files in git
are used to generate shell scripts or Makefiles in the user's build
directory, based on information/options supplied by the user at
configure time.
My pkgconf.sh, on the other hand, is a suggestion for what the user
might pass to gretl's configure script -- in the highly unlikely
event that he or she is aiming to build a redistributable gretl
package on MS Windows!
We could, I guess, add to git a special "pkgbuild" directory under
"win32" in the source tree, holding some or all of the
package-building scripts. But no auto-generated counterparts would
appear in the user's build directory, such scripts being prior to
"configure".
Allin