CVS: Makefile improvements

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hi Jakson,

Am 22. Feb 2005 um 12:00:13 schrieb Jakson Aquino:

> Since some people might not have the gettext tools, I
> can change the Makefile to produce the object files
> with the extension .gmo, and, install them as .mo.
> While shipping Statist, we could include the already
> compiled .gmo files.

Yes, we would make to create the .gmo or .mo files
before packing the tarball.
A "dist" target would be perfect for this.

> >Another possible improvement would be to use one
> place
> >to configure the installation prefix
> "/usr/share/locale"
> >and document it. 
> 
> Well, you already solved this with the Makefile.inc.
> The ideal is that the user can choose the PREFIX and
> everything else becomes automatically set. 

Yes, I solved this after writing the email.
We might want to think about calling the po/Makefile
from the src/Makefile to unify this further.
There is no real need to decend to two directories.

> Perhaps we
> still can make some small changes in the Makefiles:
> 
> 
> Makefile.inc
> ------------------------------------------------------
> #if you have root privileges choose one of the
> following prefixes:
> #PREFIX = /usr/local
> PREFIX  = /usr
> 
> #if you can't become root, uncomment the following
> line:
> #PREFIX = $$HOME

I think we should better explain this "root" non-root issues
in the documentation, as those instructions are generic and will be
known to many administrators.

> src/Makefile
> ------------------------------------------------------
> INSTALLDIR = $(PREFIX)/bin
> LOCALEDIR = $(PREFIX)/share/locale
> DOCDIR = $(PREFIX)/share/doc/statist
> 
> EXTRACFLAGS = -DLOCALEDIR='"$(LOCALE)"' >> PROBLEM
> HERE! <<

Did you mean
	EXTRACFLAGS = -DLOCALEDIR='"$(LOCALEDIR)"'
?


> The only problem that I got with the above lines was
> that EXTRACFLAGS = -DLOCALEDIR='"$(LOCALE)"' didn't
> work. That's, EXTRACFLAGS didn't become
> "/usr/share/locale". 

Just from what I saw: Where did you define LOCALE? ;)

	Bernhard
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