A port of cNibbles to DSLinux.
Alessandro Lo-Presti
agilo3 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 29 22:06:24 CEST 2007
On 9/29/07, Stefan Sperling <stsp at stsp.name> wrote:
> You've missed the point of the above command in the context
> of the porting guide.
>
> The porting guide is meant to lead you to the following directory
> structure, if the app you are porting has a configure script:
>
> user/games/cNibbles/
> |
> +---- Makefile <-- created by you from
> template in guide
> |
> +---- src/
> |
> cNibbles source tree here
>
> What you have is this:
>
> user/games/cNibbles/
> |
> cNibbles source tree here
>
> Hence the command is of course redundant in your scheme,
> but in the first scheme the Makefile above the real source
> tree has not been diffed yet at the point where the guide
> tells you to run the command.
>
> The extra Makefile in the first scheme is a wrapper around
> the build system used by the source tree in src/.
>
> This way it is easier to integrate configure scripts into
> the DSLinux build process. Because our build process has
> been inherited from uClinux where no configure scripts are
> used for some reason, we came up with the additional Makefile
> and src/ directory to compile complicated apps like links
> and openssl that have configure scripts.
>
> The alternative of running configure on only the developer's
> system once and hack the resulting Makefiles proved
> unmaintainable in the long term.
>
> --
> stefan
> http://stsp.name PGP Key: 0xF59D25F0
>
Aha, I see. That explains it.
Since cNibbles doesn't have a configure script, it's okay the way I
sent it in, isn't it?
--
Kind regards,
Alessandro Lo-Presti
agilo3 at gmail.com
http://www.agilo.nl/
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