That's actually what advancemame does, ie. the tarball contains only the advance-specific tree and a patch. You must download, merge and patch the official mame codebase over it yourself. AFAIK the actual reason the author does this is to keep his own code GPL licensed, unlike xmame, which is stuck with mame's annoying open-but-not-free licensing. I believe the xbox mame project also does this for the same reason.
Le 17 Novembre 2003 1945, mushroomblue a �crit : > that makes for a really interesting idea. > > is there any reason to duplicate the full mame tree, when a small xmame > patch could just be installed over the regular mame source? or even > provide the option to download either the full source, or just a small > package to merge with any subsequent releases? not only would this put > less of a burden on Lawrence to pack everything up and release within a > reasonable timeframe from the original, but it'd virtually make his job > minor; as all he'd have to do is accept and check patches, see if new > revisions of mame break anything, and could release updates almost > independently of mame itself. > > I know it'd make gentoo ebuilds rather cool, because one could just > download the new mame sources, download the xmame patch, and recompile > with little hassle. > > On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 15:17, Arthur R Peale wrote: > > I'm a rom burner, and as such have difficulty waiting for the next great > > release of xmame. > > > > Since the release of .77, I had to download and compile WINE so I could > > get the -listinfo datfile to do the version romcheck. > > > > I've now found that you can pretty much roll-your-own version of xmame, > > simply by copying a few files. > > > > 1) download the mame source > > 2) download the xmame source > > 3) copy the directory ./xmame/src/unix and place it at ./mame77/src/unix > > 4) copy ./xmame/makefile.unix to ./mame77/ > > 5) link (or rename) makefile.unix to Makefile > > 6) compile > > > > Viola! unofficial xmame .77 (or whatever version, I would think this > > would work with future versions as well) > > > > For those who want the latest and greatest. > > > > > > > > -- > > MAME - It's what's for dinner! > > http://www.tombstones.org.uk - meet the alt.games.mame regulars! > > http://www.pealefamily.net/tech/mame/ - My Own MAME site. > > _______________________________________________ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame
