Re: Questions on 'make dist'

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* NightStrike wrote on Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 03:42:52PM CET:
> Our project is laid out like this:
> 
> /trunk/
> /trunk/mingw-w64-crt/
> /trunk/mingw-w64-doc/
> /trunk/mingw-w64-headers/

> What is the best way to handle this situation to remove the need to
> manually tar up the trunk?

Move the (top of the) build system up the trunk?  This can be as easy as

cat >configure.ac <<'EOF'
AC_INIT([package], [version], [bug-address])
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS([mingw-w64-crt])
AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
AC_OUTPUT
EOF
echo SUBDIRS = mingw-w64-crt > Makefile.am
autoreconf -vi

though you may probably want to share auxiliary files
(AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR) with the sub configure.

Cheers,
Ralf