On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Daniel A. Koepke wrote: >On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, George Greer wrote: > >> If we ever autogenerated documentation, sure. Until then there isn't >> anything else actually made except in src/. > >That was part of the reason why, since I figured it wouldn't hurt to >provide the documentation in HTML, PostScript, or whatever else. Since >Jeremy is autogenerating the docs (isn't he? I seem to recall him getting >tired of using SGML, though), it only makes sense to provide users the >same level. He used to, until SGMLtools died. Now we have useless source documents. :) >One other reason was that I was reluctant to have a Makefile rule in src/ >that deletes files in a directory above it. With the warning, of course, >it's really their fault if they do it and don't abort when they have a >chance. We can have a 'Makefile' do './configure && cd src && make' as the top-level file. >The next thought was to change the ref rules to autogenerate documentation >in doc/ref/ from src/, rather than hardcoding Jeremy's home directory in >there. Knock yourself out. :) > % tar xyf circle30bpl18.tar.bz2 > % cd circle30bpl18 > % ./configure; make; autorun & > >Would get a mud up. Not that using 'cd src/' and 'cd ..' make it any >harder, or that we necessarily want people to be able to type three >commands to have a Mud up-and-running... Why do anything other than just 'make' ? You can have a dummy makefile run the configuration. I'm not opposed to a global Makefile, we just haven't needed it yet. -- George Greer | If it's about the CircleMUD mailing list, greerga@circlemud.org | mail owner-circle@post.queensu.ca instead. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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