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On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 15:20:05 +0100
Tino Didriksen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 14 March 2018 at 14:48, Anthony J. Bentley
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I'll add: GitHub allows uploading files associated with tagged
> > releases. Please be sure to always generate a tarball with "make
> > dist" and upload it to GitHub after you've tagged it.
> >
> > [...]
>
> So, don't just "make dist" and upload that tarball - actually test
> that you can build from the tarball. I've had to fix up several
> makefiles because new files were not added to the dist target.

This is what the autotools make target distcheck is for, it makes a
tarball, unpacks, builds (with VPATH and writeonly srcdir), checks and
tests all sorts of stuff. It can be extra-annoying with some picky
checks but if you pass them you should have quite releasable package.


-- 
Doktor Tommi A Pirinen, Computational Linguist,
<https://flammie.github.io/purplemonkeydishwasher/>, Universität
Hamburg, Hamburger Zentrum für Sprachkorpora <http://hzsk.de>. CLARIN-D
Entwickler.  President of ACL SIGUR SIG for Uralic languages
<http://gtweb.uit.no/sigur/>.
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