Re: install-examples for Gtk2

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Sunday, September 7, 2003, at 10:35 PM, Ross McFarland wrote:

> after looking around at various mailing lists, to find out where the
> examples probably ought to go i arrived at the following rule set:
>
> # the tmp-examples stuff is just so that only the pl files get 
> installed
> install-examples:
>         \ mkdir tmp-examples/
>         \ cp examples/*.pl tmp-examples/
>         \ \$(MOD_INSTALL) ./tmp-examples/       \\
>                 \$(PREFIX)/share/doc/perl-\$(DISTNAME)/examples
>         \ rm tmp-examples/*.pl
>         \ rmdir tmp-examples/
>
> i don't really like having to copy the files into a second, temporary,
> directory, but in order to use the $(MOD_INSTALL) method it seemed to 
> be
> necessary.

well, 'cp' and 'rm' aren't going to work on all platforms (namely 
windows)....  how about $(CP) and $(RM)?


> this leaves out gtk-demo, which it might be nice to install, as an
> example, any thoughts there?

gtk-demo isn't very clean --- ported from a C app, it's in several 
pieces, and since i never actually implemented the function that finds 
the pixbufs, it has to be run from the demo directory.