[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#4131) 'make dist' for the daily snapshot

["Paul Zastoupil" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 10:23:43AM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
> I'm opening an RT ticket for this.
> 
> Paul Zastoupil wrote:
> > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 11:06:02AM -0500, Jason Dorje Short wrote:
> 
> >>We should change the daily snapshots so that they are generated by 
> >>"./autogen.sh && make dist" rather than just by "cvs export" (which is I 
> >>assume what we're using now).  That would make a daily snapshot 
> >>indistinguishable from a full source release.  To make things more 
> >>consistent, we could then use the same freeciv machine to generate the 
> >>source release - thus helping to avoid problems like the Xaw3d one in 
> >>1.14.0.  It's possible this would mean installing other software 
> >>(automake, autoconf) on the freeciv machine.  And no, I'm not sure what 
> >>freeciv machine that would be...
> > 
> > 
> > Everything should already be installed.  I can almost compile the server
> > and Xaw client on the cvs.freeciv.org machine (Solaris 9 on
> > UltraSparc). I had to hand edit configure to add -lm in two places just
> > to get it to complete.
> > 
> > I've also got problems with client/gui-xaw/plrdlg.c, but I think this is
> > due to the fact that no one is testing this client very much.
> > 
> > Two tickets to follow.
> 
> It's not necessary to be able to compile any part of freeciv to get 
> 'make dist' to work.  All you should need are automake, autoconf, 
> gettext, libtool, gmake, and maybe some other tools installed.  (Of 
> course, any bug reports when compiling on this system would be good in 
> their own right.)
> 
> The biggest change is probably just changing the script that automates 
> this step.  I don't even know where this script is...

cvs:/home/freeciv/bin/mklatest

Good luck whoever wants to take this one.

> 
> jason
> 
> 

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Paul Zastoupil