Hi!
I have tested "make distcheck" on libggimisc, libgii and libggi.
Worked fine for me.
But I have also realized that, every target, where configure says "no"
doesn't come into the source tarball.
What I want to say is, that these source-tarballs (created with make
distcheck) are very platform specific.
Example: On my Linux machine, configure says no to directx, vgl and some
other targets, requiring non-installed packages (i.e. aalib).
So, when I do a make distcheck and packagers uses the resulting source
tarball, then FreeBSD- and DirectX- packagers are pissed off, because
there is no directx-code and no vgl-code, which they need. Further,
users, that uses aalib as a regular base, are also pissed off, because
there is no aalib-target.
My libgii source tarball would piss off joystick users, for example.
A FreeBSD -user, that creates a source tarball with "make distcheck" will
only contain everything he needs, that it fits on freebsd systems.
In short words: We have to create a source tarball for each platform, GGI
is ported to, to be able to make a _working_ release for that platform.
So, I suggest, making a simple tarball containing the _whole_ source tree
(don't forget to call "autogen.sh" to not miss the configure script) for
all plattforms should be enough. Of course, the tarball has the name
convention <libname>-<major>.<minor>.<micro>.tar.<compression>.
Our packagers should do the "make distcheck" then.
Comments?
CU,
Christoph Egger
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