Re: Generating release from git

[Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>]

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On 11/8/2013 4:09 AM, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 07:32:18PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
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>> How do you generate the release tarball from the git repo?  I
>> thought it would be to run make dist, but it seems the real
>> release tarball is bootstrapped with autogen.sh, but NOT
>> configured, and make dist generates a tarball that is already
>> configured.
> 
> if you have autotools based build system than
> 
> make distcheck

Doesn't this do the same thing as make dist, only with a make check
and such thrown in?  So if you don't want to do the tests and just
generate the original tarball, make dist would do the trick right?
Yet it seems to leave files in the tarball that are NOT in the
official release.


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