Re: PATCHES: Brain surgery on the build system, first stage

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Mandereau" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Lily devel" <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: PATCHES: Brain surgery on the build system, first stage


> Hi Phil,
> Le samedi 04 août 2012 à 14:02 +0100, Phil Holmes a écrit :
> > Hi John - is this patch designed to fix problems like:
> >
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2011-11/msg00360.html
>
> Yes, exactly; the commit that adresses this issue is among the four top
> commits in dev/jmandereau commit
> 8a0905f1409f3d01bf902312cb53cb8f1127e760
> Make distributed tarball from Git file list
>
> You can also test this commit separately (or together with the parent
> commit that changes mass-link.py) with the test procedure I gave in my
> earlier message, except that you won't have "make vc-clean" available,
> but it can be replaced by
> make distclean && rm -f configure aclocal.m4
>
>
> > I'd be happy to test once I know what it does a bit better.
>
> Basically, that commit changes how dist target finds files to put in the
> tarball, and removes all GNUmakefiles that are made unnecesszary by this
> change (i.e. GNUmakefiles that were present only for distributing source
> files in the tarball).
>
> Best,
> John


Testing is in progress.  Olympic cycling may interrupt some of it...

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Phil Holmes