Installing helper tool in application bundle

[Wolfgang Lux]

Hello,

I'd like to install a small helper tool in my application. This is  
quite straight forward under Mac OS X, but I'm facing two problems in  
GNUstep.

The first is that GNUstep's NSBundle implementation lacks the - 
pathForAuxiliaryExecutable: method, but I can easily work around that  
by using -pathForResource:ofType: with a nil type argument if  
NSBundle does not respond to -pathForAuxiliaryExecutable:.

The more serious problem is to set up the makefile for this (let  
alone convince ProjectCenter to do that for me). At present I'm using  
a Makefile roughly as follows:

  include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/common.make

  PACKAGE_NAME = Application
  APP_NAME = Application
  TOOL_NAME = HelperTool

  Application_RESOURCE_FILES = \
  ... \
  $(GNUSTEP_OBJ_DIR)/HelperTool

  Application_HEADER_FILES = ...
  Application_OBJC_FILES = \
  ...
  main.m

  HelperTool_OBJC_FILES = \
  HelperTool.m

  include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/aggregate.make
  include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/tool.make
  include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/application.make

However, I'm not really happy with this for two reasons. First, it  
crucially depends on the order of Makefile includes (tool.make must  
appear before application.make in order to ensure that the HelperTool  
is built or updated before it is copied into the Application's  
resource directory). Second, installation -- needlessly -- copies the  
HelperTool into the Tools directory in the chosen installation  
domain. Is there any better way to achieve copying the HelperTool  
into the Application's bundle and avoid installing it separately?

Wolfgang