Re: DOCS: include a sample "Makefile"?

[Jonathan Kulp]

Graham Percival wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:56:07PM -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote:
> > What do you guys think of including a sample Makefile somewhere in the  
> > documentation?
>
> I've been wanting this since before GDP.

Cool.  Glad to hear there's interest in this. The one I made yesterday 
is for building a LaTeX/lilypond-book project that includes a command 
for creating an index as well. I think now I'll work on one with a more 
common lilyponder's goal--an ensemble piece with targets of "score" and 
"parts" and "all."

> > I've looked at Nicolas Sceaux's  
> > makefile for his operas, and at the GNUMakefile in the LP documentation,  
> > but they're so complex that I couldn't use them as models for my own.
>
> I would expect that most of that complexity can be removed due to
> the new relative \include paths.

I'm not familiar with this as a new feature, but this morning I tried 
for the first time to use the construct

  \include "../Dirname/filename.ly"

Is this what you mean by relative \include paths? It works great!

> > My initial thought is to put the sample makefile in either 1)  
> > application usage, where it gives the lilypond-book commands, or 2) LM  
> > "handling large projects."
>
> AU is slated for demolishment, but there's nothing wrong with
> dumping it there as a quick fix; then we'll have the material
> available when we move to the next thing.  LM 5 was never
> finished, so there's also nothing wrong with dumping it there as a
> quick fix.

Yes.  Once it's written it can be moved around easily enough. I'll get 
to work on it and then we can decide where it goes. Thanks guys,

Jon

@Werner: I don't even know what GNU make extensions are so hopefully I 
can keep them out of the sample makefile. :)  I won't be able to test on 
Windows, so hopefully maybe can help out with that. I saw that Cameron 
is using Mutt for email so I doubt he's a Windows guy either.  (thanks 
for offering to help test, Cameron!) It would be great for the makefile 
to be suitable for *nix, OSX, or Windows.

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Jonathan Kulp
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