David Douthitt wrote: >Ewald Wasscher wrote: > >[I wrote:] > >>>>It's that way now, but I've just a few things to tidy up. The last >>>>file I used this on was SING, and it worked well. I'm putting >>>>documentation into the Makefile, and more. >>>> > >[Ewald replied:] > >>I still have to do so. Automatic creation of a mypackage.version file >>comes to mind. >> > >There's no way to make this totally automatic, as the version number >could be anywhere - or nowhere. Many archive names are of the form ><name>-<version>.tar.gz; some are of the form <name>-current.tar.gz; >and some are just <name>.tar.gz. Source code directories are like >this, too. So are binaries; some don't list the version at all; some >list the version only if requested. > OK, you're right about that. > >I've got a working Makefile, but there are some things I'd really like >to get in: > >* Single location specification of source files - right now, they are >specified in three places at least. >* Automatic incorporation of specially created files, such as help >files and configuration files. >* Some kind of record of the compilation options. Is this a rules >fule? Dunno.... > Doesn't really matter if it's a "rules" file does it? I can't wait to see the result. Ewald Wasscher _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel