Re: Is including a custom dist-foo into distcheck impossible

[deckrider]

I do something similar for building an nsis-based win32 installer:

http://pidgin-bs.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pidgin-bs/bot-sentry/trunk/configure.ac?revision=165&view=markup

http://pidgin-bs.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pidgin-bs/bot-sentry/trunk/Makefile.am?revision=165&view=markup

Note that these are conditional targets, since I want the package to
build/distcheck even on hosts that don't have makensis installed and
available.

I don't know that my way is 'correct' and although it appears to work,
I'm open to any improvements that may be noticed.

<offTopicForAutomake>

Also, you may wish to reconsider whether it is wise to include a
debian target/directory directly, or whether you might follow the
usual convention for delivering debian source packages:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-request-tracker-maintainers/2006-October/000175.html
http://osdir.com/ml/linux.debian.devel.mentors/2002-11/msg00143.html
http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html

(address@hidden is a good place for further discussion)

</offTopicForAutomake>

On 6/7/07, Noah Slater <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am developing a package with Automake that needs to have a custom
> dist taget for making debian packages in addition to the usual
> tarballs etc.
>
> I have created a dist-deb that works perfectly but I am unable to find
> any way of including this into the distcheck target.
>
> Is this possible?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Noah
>
> --
> "Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so
> far as society is free to use the results." - R. Stallman


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