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

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Baumans wrote:
> What does "make dist" do, anyway? How was 1.14.0 put out?

As Per said, it creates a distribution tarball.  This tarball is in the 
current directory, as freeciv-<version>.tar.gz.  Included in the tarball 
are configure, various Makefile.in, and other files generated by 
autogen.sh (but not those generated by configure).  Thus the user need 
only run ./configure && make later to compile freeciv.

One problem is that the tarball does not have a constant name.  This may 
make it difficult to just copy the tarball over and use it.  In fact, 
when you untar the tarball it will give you a directory 
freeciv-<version>, which is not exactly what we want (but might be 
okay).  If the CVS had consistent versioning (as discussed on RT), this 
would be solved.

I would expect the correct script would run something like:

   cd freeciv
   ./autogen.sh > /dev/null
   make dist >/dev/null 2>&1
   mv freeciv-*.tar.gz ../$LATESTSNAP/freeciv-cvs-$TODAY.tar.bz2
   cd ..

jason