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-rw-r--r--HISTORY11
-rw-r--r--Makefile12
-rw-r--r--PLUGINS.html33
-rw-r--r--PLUGINS/src/hello/HISTORY4
-rw-r--r--PLUGINS/src/hello/Makefile10
-rw-r--r--PLUGINS/src/hello/hello.c4
-rw-r--r--config.h4
-rwxr-xr-xnewplugin8
8 files changed, 53 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 3b231a19..91d66a51 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -1285,3 +1285,14 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
See PLUGINS.html, section "Configuration files" for details.
- Improved the [eid]syslog() macros, so that the LOG_... macros don't need to be
given any more.
+
+2002-05-17: Version 1.1.3
+
+- Improved the VDR Makefile to avoid a warning if the '.dependencies' file does
+ not exist, and also using $(MAKE) to call recursive makes.
+- Changed the name of the 'package' target in the plugin Makefiles to 'dist'
+ (following the suggestions in the "GNU Make" manual). If you already have started
+ a plugin project, you may want to change this in your Makefile accordingly.
+- Improved the plugin Makefile to avoid a warning if the '.dependencies' file does
+ not exist, and also using $(shell...) to get the version numbers. If you already have
+ started a plugin project, you may want to change this in your Makefile accordingly.
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ea201dad..7e675a9f 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
# See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
# how to reach the author.
#
-# $Id: Makefile 1.35 2002/05/10 10:24:46 kls Exp $
+# $Id: Makefile 1.36 2002/05/14 21:12:28 kls Exp $
.DELETE_ON_ERROR:
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ DEPFILE = .dependencies
$(DEPFILE): Makefile
@$(MAKEDEP) $(DEFINES) $(INCLUDES) $(OBJS:%.o=%.c) > $@
-include $(DEPFILE)
+-include $(DEPFILE)
# The main program:
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ genfontfile: genfontfile.c
# The libdtv library:
$(DTVLIB) $(DTVDIR)/libdtv.h:
- make -C $(DTVDIR) all
+ $(MAKE) -C $(DTVDIR) all
# The 'include' directory (for plugins):
@@ -99,10 +99,10 @@ include-dir:
# Plugins:
plugins: include-dir
- @for i in `ls $(PLUGINDIR)/src | grep -v '[^a-z0-9]'`; do make -C "$(PLUGINDIR)/src/$$i" all; done
+ @for i in `ls $(PLUGINDIR)/src | grep -v '[^a-z0-9]'`; do $(MAKE) -C "$(PLUGINDIR)/src/$$i" all; done
plugins-clean:
- @for i in `ls $(PLUGINDIR)/src | grep -v '[^a-z0-9]'`; do make -C "$(PLUGINDIR)/src/$$i" clean; done
+ @for i in `ls $(PLUGINDIR)/src | grep -v '[^a-z0-9]'`; do $(MAKE) -C "$(PLUGINDIR)/src/$$i" clean; done
@-rm -f $(PLUGINDIR)/lib/*
# Install the files:
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ install:
# Housekeeping:
clean:
- make -C $(DTVDIR) clean
+ $(MAKE) -C $(DTVDIR) clean
-rm -f $(OBJS) $(DEPFILE) vdr genfontfile genfontfile.o core* *~
-rm -rf include
fontclean:
diff --git a/PLUGINS.html b/PLUGINS.html
index 5098ace6..6caff0e8 100644
--- a/PLUGINS.html
+++ b/PLUGINS.html
@@ -16,12 +16,15 @@ This document describes the "outside" interface of the plugin system.
It handles everything necessary for a plugin to get hooked into the core
VDR program and present itself to the user.
<p>
-<!--X1.1.1--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=cyan>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+<!--X1.1.1--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=lime>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
Important modifications introduced in version 1.1.1 are marked like this.
<!--X1.1.1--></td></tr></table>
-<!--X1.1.2--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=red>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+<!--X1.1.2--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=cyan>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
Important modifications introduced in version 1.1.2 are marked like this.
<!--X1.1.2--></td></tr></table>
+<!--X1.1.3--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=red>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+Important modifications introduced in version 1.1.3 are marked like this.
+<!--X1.1.3--></td></tr></table>
<!--<p>TODO: Link to the document about VDR base classes to use when implementing actual functionality (yet to be written).-->
<hr><h2>Quick start</h2>
@@ -117,7 +120,7 @@ from the web, it will typically have a name like
<p>
and will unpack into a directory named
<p>
-<!--X1.1.2--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=red>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+<!--X1.1.2--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=cyan>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
<tt>hello-0.0.1</tt>
<!--X1.1.2--></td></tr></table>
<p>
@@ -125,7 +128,7 @@ To use the <tt>plugins</tt> and <tt>plugins-clean</tt> targets from the VDR <tt>
you need to unpack such an archive into the <tt>VDR/PLUGINS/src</tt> directory and
create a symbolic link with the basic plugin name, as in
-<!--X1.1.2--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=red>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+<!--X1.1.2--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=cyan>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
<p><table><tr><td bgcolor=#F0F0F0><pre><br>
ln -s hello-0.0.1 hello
</pre></td></tr></table><p>
@@ -191,7 +194,7 @@ its memory. You don't need to worry about the details behind all this.
If your plugin requires additional source files, simply add them to your plugin's
source directory and adjust the <tt>Makefile</tt> accordingly.
<p>
-<!--X1.1.1--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=cyan>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+<!--X1.1.1--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=lime>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
Header files usually contain preprocessor statements that prevent the same
file (or rather its contents, to be precise) from being included more than once, like
@@ -410,7 +413,7 @@ If a plugin implements a function that runs in the background (presumably in a
thread of its own), or wants to make use of <a href="#Internationalization">internationalization</a>,
it needs to implement the function
-<!--X1.1.2--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=red>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+<!--X1.1.2--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=cyan>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
<p><table><tr><td bgcolor=#F0F0F0><pre><br>
virtual bool Start(void);
</pre></td></tr></table><p>
@@ -422,7 +425,7 @@ its task. This may, for instance, be a thread that collects data from the DVB
stream, which is later presented to the user via a function that is available
from the main menu.
<p>
-<!--X1.1.2--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=red>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+<!--X1.1.2--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=cyan>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
A return value of <i>false</i> indicates that something has gone wrong and the
plugin will not be able to perform its task. In that case, the plugin should
write a proper error message to the log file. The first plugin that returns
@@ -486,7 +489,7 @@ interaction is possible. If a specific action takes longer than a few seconds,
the plugin should launch a separate thread to do this.
</b>
-<!--X1.1.2--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=red>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+<!--X1.1.2--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=cyan>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
<hr><h2>Housekeeping</h2>
<center><i><b>Chores, chores...</b></i></center><p>
@@ -533,7 +536,7 @@ previously stored in the global setup data (see below). It shall return
<i>true</i> if the parameter was parsed correctly, <i>false</i> in case of
an error. If <i>false</i> is returned, an error message will be written to
the log file (and program execution will continue).
-<!--X1.1.1--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=cyan>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+<!--X1.1.1--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=lime>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
A possible implementation of <tt>SetupParse()</tt> could look like this:
<p><table><tr><td bgcolor=#F0F0F0><pre><br>
@@ -588,7 +591,7 @@ needs setup parameters that are not directly user adjustable. It can use
<tt>SetupStore()</tt> and <tt>SetupParse()</tt> without presenting these
parameters to the user.
-<!--X1.1.1--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=cyan>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+<!--X1.1.1--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=lime>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
<a name="The Setup menu"><hr><h2>The Setup menu</h2>
<center><i><b>Have it your way!</b></i></center><p>
@@ -648,7 +651,7 @@ your setup parameters and use that one to copy all parameters with one single st
(like VDR does with its cSetup class).
<!--X1.1.1--></td></tr></table>
-<!--X1.1.2--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=red>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+<!--X1.1.2--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=cyan>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
<hr><h2>Configuration files</h2>
<center><i><b>I want my own stuff!</b></i></center><p>
@@ -815,16 +818,18 @@ and display their help and/or version information in addition to its own output.
If you want to make your plugin available to other VDR users, you'll need to
make a package that can be easily distributed.
+<!--X1.1.3--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=red>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
The <tt>Makefile</tt> that has been created by the call to
<a href="#Initializing a new plugin directory"><tt>newplugin</tt></a>
-provides the target <tt>package</tt>, which does this for you.
+provides the target <tt>dist</tt>, which does this for you.
<p>
-Simply change into your source directory and execute <tt>make package</tt>:
+Simply change into your source directory and execute <tt>make dist</tt>:
<p><table><tr><td bgcolor=#F0F0F0><pre><br>
cd VDR/PLUGINS/src/hello
-make package
+make dist
</pre></td></tr></table><p>
+<!--X1.1.3--></td></tr></table>
After this you should find a file named like
diff --git a/PLUGINS/src/hello/HISTORY b/PLUGINS/src/hello/HISTORY
index 4df316fd..f4cc7431 100644
--- a/PLUGINS/src/hello/HISTORY
+++ b/PLUGINS/src/hello/HISTORY
@@ -14,3 +14,7 @@ VDR Plugin 'hello' Revision History
- Changed return type of cPluginHello::Start().
- Added cPluginHello::Housekeeping().
- Modified package generation.
+
+2002-05-17: Version 0.0.4
+
+- Makefile improvements.
diff --git a/PLUGINS/src/hello/Makefile b/PLUGINS/src/hello/Makefile
index fbd74508..a6dafc27 100644
--- a/PLUGINS/src/hello/Makefile
+++ b/PLUGINS/src/hello/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#
# Makefile for a Video Disk Recorder plugin
#
-# $Id: Makefile 1.2 2002/05/12 15:09:07 kls Exp $
+# $Id: Makefile 1.3 2002/05/14 21:21:32 kls Exp $
# The official name of this plugin.
# This name will be used in the '-P...' option of VDR to load the plugin.
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ PLUGIN = hello
### The version number of this plugin (taken from the main source file):
-VERSION = `grep 'static const char \*VERSION *=' $(PLUGIN).c | awk '{ print $$6 }' | sed -e 's/[";]//g'`
+VERSION = $(shell grep 'static const char \*VERSION *=' $(PLUGIN).c | awk '{ print $$6 }' | sed -e 's/[";]//g')
### The directory environment:
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ TMPDIR = /tmp
### The version number of VDR (taken from VDR's "config.h"):
-VDRVERSION = `grep 'define VDRVERSION ' $(VDRDIR)/config.h | awk '{ print $$3 }' | sed -e 's/"//g'`
+VDRVERSION = $(shell grep 'define VDRVERSION ' $(VDRDIR)/config.h | awk '{ print $$3 }' | sed -e 's/"//g')
### The name of the distribution archive:
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ DEPFILE = .dependencies
$(DEPFILE): Makefile
@$(MAKEDEP) $(DEFINES) $(INCLUDES) $(OBJS:%.o=%.c) > $@
-include $(DEPFILE)
+-include $(DEPFILE)
### Targets:
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ libvdr-$(PLUGIN).so: $(OBJS)
$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -shared $(OBJS) -o $@
@cp $@ $(LIBDIR)/$@.$(VDRVERSION)
-package: clean
+dist: clean
@-rm -rf $(TMPDIR)/$(ARCHIVE)
@mkdir $(TMPDIR)/$(ARCHIVE)
@cp -a * $(TMPDIR)/$(ARCHIVE)
diff --git a/PLUGINS/src/hello/hello.c b/PLUGINS/src/hello/hello.c
index 9a6c6e31..50aeeb3c 100644
--- a/PLUGINS/src/hello/hello.c
+++ b/PLUGINS/src/hello/hello.c
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
*
* See the README file for copyright information and how to reach the author.
*
- * $Id: hello.c 1.4 2002/05/12 10:18:59 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: hello.c 1.5 2002/05/14 21:23:25 kls Exp $
*/
#include <getopt.h>
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
#include <vdr/plugin.h>
#include "i18n.h"
-static const char *VERSION = "0.0.3";
+static const char *VERSION = "0.0.4";
static const char *DESCRIPTION = "A friendly greeting";
static const char *MAINMENUENTRY = "Hello";
diff --git a/config.h b/config.h
index cb21745d..8ef6f69a 100644
--- a/config.h
+++ b/config.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
* See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
* how to reach the author.
*
- * $Id: config.h 1.116 2002/05/13 16:28:16 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: config.h 1.117 2002/05/14 21:21:53 kls Exp $
*/
#ifndef __CONFIG_H
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
#include "eit.h"
#include "tools.h"
-#define VDRVERSION "1.1.2"
+#define VDRVERSION "1.1.3"
#define MAXPRIORITY 99
#define MAXLIFETIME 99
diff --git a/newplugin b/newplugin
index a30961b6..a207d034 100755
--- a/newplugin
+++ b/newplugin
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
# See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
# how to reach the author.
#
-# $Id: newplugin 1.4 2002/05/12 15:02:13 kls Exp $
+# $Id: newplugin 1.5 2002/05/14 21:22:59 kls Exp $
$PLUGIN_NAME = $ARGV[0] || die "Usage: newplugin <name>\n";
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ PLUGIN = $PLUGIN_NAME
### The version number of this plugin (taken from the main source file):
-VERSION = `grep 'static const char \\*VERSION *=' \$(PLUGIN).c | awk '{ print \$\$6 }' | sed -e 's/[";]//g'`
+VERSION = \$(shell grep 'static const char \\*VERSION *=' \$(PLUGIN).c | awk '{ print \$\$6 }' | sed -e 's/[";]//g')
### The directory environment:
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ TMPDIR = /tmp
### The version number of VDR (taken from VDR's "config.h"):
-VDRVERSION = `grep 'define VDRVERSION ' \$(VDRDIR)/config.h | awk '{ print \$\$3 }' | sed -e 's/"//g'`
+VDRVERSION = \$(shell grep 'define VDRVERSION ' \$(VDRDIR)/config.h | awk '{ print \$\$3 }' | sed -e 's/"//g')
### The name of the distribution archive:
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ DEPFILE = .dependencies
\$(DEPFILE): Makefile
\@\$(MAKEDEP) \$(DEFINES) \$(INCLUDES) \$(OBJS:%.o=%.c) > \$\@
-include \$(DEPFILE)
+-include \$(DEPFILE)
### Targets: