Thanks for the prompt feedback

I understand from your email that you are not worried if those files are 
empty?

Maintaining extra copies of these files for libmetrics may be another 
reason to try and avoid the nested configure script

On 20/03/2012 15:07, Michael Perzl wrote:
> I tested the tarball and it still does not contain the following files:
>
> ganglia-3.3.2/ChangeLog
> ganglia-3.3.2/libmetrics/ChangeLog
> ganglia-3.3.2/libmetrics/INSTALL
>
> Those files are necessary if you do a "autoreconf -fi" which is
> necessary if you add something to any "*.am" file in the source tree. I
> build all the additional gmond modules for AIX and Linux on Power this way.
>
> Therefore, I have in the respective spec-file a statement like this in
> "%prep":
>
> %prep
> %setup -q
> # autoreconf seems to need this one
> touch ChangeLog libmetrics/ChangeLog libmetrics/INSTALL
>
> I have verified this and get the exact same behavior on all platforms
> that I use which include:
> AIX 5.1, AIX 5.3, SLES9, SLES10, SLES11, RHEL4, RHEL6
>
> So I assume this is nothing specific to AIX but a general issue. Ganglia
> version 3.3.1 was the first one where this is required, any previous
> version did not requires this.
>
> Before you release version 3.3.2 could you please add (dummy) files for
> those?
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
> On 03/20/2012 03:07 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> On 20/03/2012 12:09, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>>>
>>> I've updated the document at
>>>
>>> https://github.com/ganglia/monitor-core/wiki/BuildingARelease
>>>
>>> and been able to follow the steps there to build a working tarball (at
>>> least the tarball works for me).
>>>
>>> The main change is that it now relies on `make dist' rather than
>>> scripts/package-ganglia-release to decide what belongs in the tarball.
>>>
>>> Does anyone want to sneak in any last minute changes before I tag 3.3.2
>>> and make the tarball available for testing?
>>>
>>> Where should I put the tarball for people to test before general release?
>> I've put a pre-release tarball here:
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/ganglia/files/pre-release/
>>
>> It is based on commit e59f87da325bf66d128b086054656ec280b200e2 which has
>> not yet been tagged
>>
>> If there are no loud objections, I'll tag it later today
>>
>> The SHA-256 checksum for this tarball is:
>> 10c587b2f913c47b1ed06e7d00c33192604fe4bf2b3ad113d67abf178b241972
>>
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