Re: dist files

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Tuesday 08 March 2005 09:48 pm, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Unfortunately I know little about building processes.  I see that it
> was not updated and I also think automating this process would be
> wise.  Does no one have any idea how to do this?

As far as I know, there are three ways to do this:

1. Automake determines if a file should be distributed based on Makefile.am 
and some special rules (such as configure). It is difficult for us to use, 
because we have arch-specific makefiles (this might be feasible if I make 
genmk.rb to generate another piece of makefile which specifies all 
distributed files).

2. A combination of CVS and a small tool can generate a distribution fairly 
easily. I can simply export files in the CVS and regenerate some files if 
necessary.

3. A file called MANIFEST is used in many projects. This is basically the same 
as our way. The file lists all files (sometimes with wildcards).

Okuji