Re: [GD-DEVEL] Call for test: 2.0.36

On Sunday 09 March 2008, Pierre Joye wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> >  autotools should never be required to build a package.  how are you
> > creating the tarball ?
>
> That's what I thought too. I test (and did the test for this package)
> on a Etch VM here which does not even the autotools installed, the
> build and install went fine. I build the tarball using cpack after
> having generated a fresh configure script using bootstrap.sh.
>
> > if you use `make dist`, it should handle all of these things
> >  for you.  further more, `make distcheck` is a quick way to check for a
> > bunch of basic gotchas.
>
> To get the makefiles I have to run configure or can it be done without
> running configure?

yes, you have to run configure in order to execute dist/distcheck.  dont worry 
about the configure options though as generally autoconf/automake handle this 
properly (this is why the DIST variables and such exist).
-mike

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