[FFmpeg-devel] [Patch] adding 'dist' rule to makefiles

[Ismail Dönmez]

Monday 12 November 2007 Tarihinde 19:08:41 yazm??t?:
> Hi Mans,
>
> On Nov 12, 2007 11:42 AM, M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com> wrote:
> > Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> > > On Nov 12, 2007 8:19 AM, M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com> wrote:
> > >> Dejan Sakelsak wrote:
> > >> > generates a ffmpeg.tar.gz tarball in $(SRC_PATH)
> > >>
> > >> For what purpose?  I don't see how this adds anything of value.
> > >
> > > I figure you've never done any project maintainance of any kind?
> >
> > You figure wrongly.  Now, can you please explain what this patch
> > would be good for?  If you can't, it is implicitly rejected.
>
> I didn't propose the patch, but you're implying you've maintained (and thus
> released) software without using make dist? Is that even possible?
>
> Make dist is the rough equivalent of the (impossible) combination of:
>
> make distclean
> cd ..
> mv project project-version
> tar -zcvf project-version.tar.gz/bz2 project-version
> mv project-version project
> mv project-version.tar.gz/bz2 project
> cd project
>
> So in short, it creates a tarball of your current tree without cruft
> (autogenerated, log files, vim backups, etc.) files.

use svn export.

/ismail

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