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Re: Adding Binary Files to a Package



> > > 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.

The part I'm adding is actually perfectly free.  I just formatted a
disk, put a pd "hello" program on it, and called it "blank.dsk".  It
was fun to try and remember the "init hello" command.  <grin>

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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