Re: Elpa packages and Makefiles

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Grant Rettke <gcr@wisdomandwonder.com> writes:

> To think through the process and decide how you would package it up
> yourself, try setting
> up an el-get recipe: https://github.com/dimitri/el-get
>
> Once you've got that thought through, you will be able to get any
> package maintainer whatever they need to package up your software
> because you will know precisely what steps you wanted to be performed.

Thanks, Grant. In this case, I *am* the package maintainer, and I know
what I want, I just don't know how Elpa interacts with Makefiles...

> Grant Rettke | ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM
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>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:26 PM, Eric Abrahamsen
> <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>> I'm slowly working on a getting a package Elpa-ready, and have just a
>> few more questions. One is the role of a Makefile.
>>
>> The only targets I really need are compilation, autoloads, and texinfo.
>> My understanding is that Elpa deployment will do all these things for me
>> (the last dependent on the presence of "<package>.texi" and "dir"
>> files). I don't need a Makefile for that.
>>
>> But I would like to also make the package installable straight from
>> github or other locations, in which case a Makefile will still be
>> necessary.
>>
>> In the Elpa repo I've seen packages with Makefiles, with no Makefiles,
>> and even with Makefiles that contain an "elpa" target. My question is,
>> will Elpa deployment honor an existing Makefile (in which case, which
>> targets are used?), ignore it, or conflict -- ie I should .elpaignore it
>> or something.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> E
>>
>>