[CF-Devel] Automake patch available, please test it

[Jacek Konieczny]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 09:43:50PM -0700, Mark Wedel wrote:
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      >The "make distcheck" builds a dsitribution tarball and checks if it
     
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      >works.
     
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       How does distcheck determine what to pack in the archive?  It appears that 
     
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       it just takes everything in the current directory? 
     
     No it doesn't do that. It archives only files described in Makefile.am
and some well-known files (like README or Makefile.{in,am}.

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      Distcheck failed on my 
     
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      system because there was a gmon.out.
     
     It is strange... Could you send me the full output of `make distcheck`?

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       I'm much more worried about say the doc directories, where there may be 
     
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       some left over files from the build process.
     
     They should be not included. And automake will not archive them unless
there is some error in some Makefile.am or configure.ac

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       I suppose the right approach for making archives with this system would be 
     
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       to have a completely cvs checkout (done after whatever checkins) to run 
     
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      this in. This is slightly more inconvenient than the current archive 
     
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      method, which knows to only archive files specifically mentioned.
     
     automake is supposed to archive even some of autogenerated files which
doesn't need to be kept in CVS (as CVS is intended for developers, who
can rebuild those files).

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      >          instead of autoconf.h header. This is done according to
     
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      >          automake documentation ("datadir","libdir","localstatedir"
     
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      >          should be used only in Makefile)
     
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       I personally find this new format annoying.