#20136: Various meataxe build issues
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       Reporter:  jdemeyer                       |        Owner:
           Type:  defect                         |       Status:  new
       Priority:  major                          |    Milestone:  sage-7.1
      Component:  packages: optional             |   Resolution:
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Report Upstream:  Reported upstream. Developers  |  Work issues:
  acknowledge bug.                               |       Commit:
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Comment (by SimonKing):

 Replying to [comment:27 SimonKing]:
 > > I would try to convince upstream to either fix `make tar` or to add a
 new target (say, `make dist`) to create the full distribution including
 the testsuite.
 >
 > How could I do the latter? I could of course add a patch in
 build/pkg/meataxe/patches. But that patch would be applied to the already
 *existing* sources that include tests.

 Maybe by letting `spkg-src` act as follows:
 - `git clone` the upstream repository
 - `git checkout` the specific commit that we are working with
 - `patch ...` applying a patch to the makefile
 - `make dist`.

 Does that sound right?

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