Re: make dist broken

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Graham Percival" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: make dist broken


> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 07:03:36PM -0000, Phil Holmes wrote:
> > Well - that's clearly down to my adding those files to .git.  What
> > does make dist do?
>
> It, or rather make distcheck, makes sure that the source tarball
> matches the actual source.  But I don't know exactly what GUB
> calls, so don't bother looking for the precise "make distcheck".
>
> Instead, look at how the other languages are handled in
> Documentation/GNUmakefile, and do the same thing for your three
> new languages.  Or maybe look at Documentation/??/GNUmakefile.
> One of those would be it.
>
> - Graham

So - presumably make dist creates the tarball, and as part of it, it calls 
make distcheck to compare the tarball with the source tree.  Does that sound 
sensible?

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Phil Holmes