Re: [Evolution-hackers] Switching from Autotools to CMake for core evolution products

[Gilles Dartiguelongue <gilles dartiguelongue esiee org>]

Le lundi 10 octobre 2016 à 10:01 +0200, Milan Crha a écrit :
> On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 09:39 +0200, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:
> > Also, does CMake support make distcheck yet ? As a downstream
> > maintainer, I find many packages with errors in distributed sources
> > would have been caught by make distcheck when releasing.
>       Hi,
> CMake doesn't "support" it by default, but I have there custom
> targets
> named "dist", "distcheck" and "disttest", the same as "check". Note
> that the 'dist*' targets create the tarball from a git clone first,
> thus it won't work with the tarball sources. It didn't work well with
> the autotools too, I think, where you better build the sources and
> run
> 'make check' only.

I guess it is too late to talk about this but what problems did
autotools had with make distcheck ? I regularly used it when
contributing patches to evo/eds and still do when preparing patches for
any autotooled package.

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Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@whyte.ninja>