Re: Adding Binary Files to a Package

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Brian White wrote:

> > Create the image as part of the build target in rules. Remove the image
> > file thus created in the clean target.
> 
> Since the image can't be created through command-line stuff, I've done
> what someone else suggested:  uuencode it.  I extract the binary from
> that.  Crude, but it works.
> 
I had envisioned the rules file expecting to find an apple disk in the
first floppy drive, and dd'ing the image to the appropriate file. This
would make the build explicitly depend on the "non-free" portion you are
trying to add to the package.

Luck,

Dwarf
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