Thanks man, make distcheck dies with because of permissions or
something. but if i do a make dist, then untargz it, configure it and
make ... PERFECT!

thanks again

-Nigel

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 03:05:55PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Nigel Kukard wrote:
> 
> > So if i targz my package I must take the checked out source, after I
> > aclocal ...... etc. it? and tgz that?
> 
> If you enable Automake's "maintainer mode" and use GNU make, then it
> seems to do a pretty good job of ensuring that all files are up to
> date.  The latest Automake does a good job of ordering things.  With
> older Automake, you may need to do 'make; make; make' since it may
> take several passes.
> 
> The project I maintain does cvs commit configure and the Makefile.in's
> to CVS and we have not had any distribution time stamp problems.  The
> distribution package is built via 'make dist' or 'make distcheck'.
> 
> If your package is sufficiently well prepared, then you can do
> 'make distcheck' to make sure that everything is 100% ok.  Consider
> this to be a personal challenge. :-)
> 
> Bob
> 
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 01:30:11PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > > On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Vaclav Haisman wrote:
> > >
> > > > That is afaik because teh checked out files have bad time stamps. configure's
> > > > time stamp must be the younger than configure.in's, Makefile.in's younger than
> > > > Makefile.am's etc.
> > >
> > > CVS does not preserve time stamps.  Freshly checked out files have the
> > > correct time stamp, but updated/patched copies do not.
> > >
> > > Bob
> > >
> >
> 
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