Re: Release tarballs are full of garbage

On Monday 06 December 2004 23:19, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> It would give me a better feeling if the release tarballs contained an
> up to date build system and less garbage.  Here is a selection from
> rekall 2.2.3:

I'm aware that there are a number of problems with the admin* files. However, 
I've decided to drop the autotools files for 2.3.x in favour of Scons, 
because (a) autotools is IM(maybe-not-so)HO a patch on a hack on a tool that 
was fine 10 years ago but is long past its sell-by date and (b) the 
continuous treadmill of autotools changes is on a par with M$oft (but with 
much worse backwards compatability)

>
> admin.kde3/config.guess  -- too old, does not recognize new systems
> admin.kde3/config.sub  -- too old, does not recognize new systems
> admin.kde3/cvs.sh  -- requires automake 1.5, which is ancient
> admin.kde3/ltmain.sh  -- libtool 1.4e, doesn't work on new systems
>
> The whole admin.kde3/ tree should probably be updated regularly.
>
> Similar issues exist in admin.qt/; many files are not even executable.
> The whole thing is probably broken.
>
> Every directory contains suspicious leftover files named
> Makefile.am.tmp.
>
> autom4te-2.53.cache/ and autom4te.cache/ are useless.  Delete them.
>
> BUILD is an empty file.  Delete it.
>
> ChangeLog is clearly not maintained.  Delete it.
>
> The following files belong to a local build and should be deleted before
> making a release.  Releases ought to be build using "make dist" or
> better even "make distcheck" to make sure everything is clean.
>
> build.log
> config.h
> config.log
> config.status
> libtool
>
> The following files in the top-level directory are useless because the
> corresponding files in admin/ are used.  The files in the top-level
> directory should be deleted.
>
> config.guess
> config.sub
> install-sh
> ltconfig
> ltmain.sh
> missing
> mkinstalldirs
> stamp-h
> stamp-h1
>
> The file "dlog" is garbage.
>
> Also, there is a file called rekall-2.2.3.tar.gz *in* the package.
>
> The po/ directory is full of files from a local build that should not be
> in a distribution.
>
> The po/Makefile fails to clean po/de.gmo po/it.gmo.  They should be
> added to CLEANFILES or something.
>
> Also, the distclean target fails to remove about half of the Makefiles
> in the tree.  That's because config.status creates a makefile there,
> but the makefiles are not set up to recurse there to clean up.  The
> directories should be added to DISTSUBDIRS, I believe, to make that
> work.
>
> Using "make dist" to build the distribution tarball really helps with
> most of these issues.
>
> In any case, the 2.2.3 release tarball is really broken.  I hope you
> find the time to build a better one soon.  Thanks.

Some specific information would help, I presume "in any case" means that there 
is something else??

Mike

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