From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andre Naujoks Subject: Re: [PATCH] do not use --symlink for autoreconf Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 14:41:47 +0200 Message-ID: <53B3FE0B.7090205@gmail.com> References: <1404303178-24608-1-git-send-email-nautsch2@gmail.com> <53B3F88E.2080202@pengutronix.de> <53B3FC62.1030209@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f172.google.com ([209.85.212.172]:36386 "EHLO mail-wi0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751538AbaGBMse (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jul 2014 08:48:34 -0400 Received: by mail-wi0-f172.google.com with SMTP id hi2so9556327wib.17 for ; Wed, 02 Jul 2014 05:48:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <53B3FC62.1030209@gmail.com> Sender: linux-can-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Marc Kleine-Budde , linux-can@vger.kernel.org Cc: socketcan@hartkopp.net On 02.07.2014 14:34, Andre Naujoks wrote: > 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 >> >> 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 ... after which I unpack, autogen.sh and repack. Which is probably not the sanest way of doing this, but should work. > > 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 >> >