OctaveDE progress and autotools tutorial

[John Swensen]

On Apr 5, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Rik wrote:

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>> Subject:
>> OctaveDE progress and autotools tutorial
>> From:
>> John Swensen <jpswensen at comcast.net>
>> Date:
>> Sun, 5 Apr 2009 00:39:48 -0400
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>> So I have fixed a bunch of bugs in OctaveDE and added a bunch of
>> functionality.  Here is a list of what I fixed/added:
>> 1) Fixed a ton of bugs concerning the closing of the application
>> 2) Added the ability to set and clear breakpoints and see the  
>> location
>> when a breakpoint is hit
>> 3) Integrated the OpenGL plotter into OctaveDE with rotation and zoom
>> capabiltiies
>>
>> However, I till can't figure out autotools completely.  I can't get
>> figure out how to get it to install extra stuff in /usr/share
>> properly.  Does anyone know of a good tutorial or example of
>> installing additional stuff with autotools?  I tried to look through
>> the way octave does it, but was too extensive for me to really
>> understand.
> I always find programming with autotools difficult, but your issue  
> isn't
> too bad.
>
> Modify your Makefile.am to include something like the following:
> EXTRA_DIST = $(myextras_DATA)
> myextrasdir = $(pkgdatadir)
> myextras_DATA = file1 file2 file3
>
> The above lines are case sensitive.  DATA and EXTRA_DIST are key words
> for the autotools sequence.  The directory $(pkgdatadir) would usually
> refer to /usr/local/share/OctaveDE unless the --prefix option to
> configure was given.  You can put things somewhere else by using
> 'myextrasdir = $(pkgdatadir)/new_dir'
>
> --Rik


Thanks for the quick, concise explanation.  That worked perfectly.  I  
must be dumb to not be able to figure that out myself ;)  I think I am  
ready to make a Debian/Ubuntu package now.

John