Re: How are "official" tarballs built?

[Zach Frey <zfrey bright net>]

Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> (Hmmm, not a bad name...)

:^)
 
> The tarballs are the result of
> 
>         1) make distcheck
> 
>         2) make dist, and then try to build the resulting tarball by
>            hand.
> 
> (2) is required because (1) does not always pick up all packaging
> errors.
> 
> This is for the packages that use Automake, which thankfully is most
> of the ones we have.  Packages which don't, like mc, have a different
> process.

So, if I detect packaging errors in a tarball, I should
look at the dist: target (and distcheck: as well) in the 
toplevel makefile (OK, Makefile.in) and go from there.


Thanks for the help,

Zach