Re: [PATCH] do not use --symlink for autoreconf

[Andre Naujoks <nautsch2@gmail.com>]

On 02.07.2014 14:18, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> On 07/02/2014 02:12 PM, Andre Naujoks wrote:
>> When packaging the can-utils, I understand, that the generation
>> step for autoconf should be done beforehand. However using the
>> --symlink option in the autoreconf step installs links instead of
>> the actual files, which leads to a build failure when trying to
>> build on another host with different autotools installed.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Andre Naujoks <nautsch2@gmail.com>
> 
> How do you package the can-utils? The usual steps are:
> 
> ./autogen.sh ./configure make dist

with git archive. Something like

git archive --prefix=can-utils-`git describe --always --dirty`/ -o
can-utils-`git describe --always --dirty`.tar.gz HEAD

I was not aware of the dist target. Why do I have to configure before
creating the dist? Isn't the configure step just for adaptations for
the build-host and target?

Andre

> 
> Marc
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