Re: [PATCH] make make dist work without making first

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 17:48, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> jacob berkman <jacob ximian com> writes:
> 
> > this patch was required for me to be able to make dist without distcheck
> > or building initially.
> 
> Hmm, in general, I'd consider this to be a rather unsupported usage,
> just because it is hard to keep a check on, but I guess we can 
> try to apply some patches and see if we can do it.

well considering i'll be building hourly / nightly gnome 2 snapshots,
i'll know pretty quickly after it breaks.

right now i just ran into the fact that the doc generation code needs an
X connection - looking forward to fixing this (i know this kind of thing
thrills msw).

> 
> > Index: gobject/Makefile.am
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/gnome/glib/gobject/Makefile.am,v
> > retrieving revision 1.40
> > diff -u -r1.40 Makefile.am
> > --- gobject/Makefile.am	2001/09/25 06:03:22	1.40
> > +++ gobject/Makefile.am	2001/10/01 22:28:54
> > @@ -14,6 +14,9 @@
> >  
> >  libglib = $(top_builddir)/glib/libglib-1.3.la
> >  
> > +$(libglib):
> > +	$(MAKE) -C $(top_builddir)/glib
> 
> This is fairly evil because there is no guarantee that the $(libglib)
> is up-to-date, just that it exists.

i figured you would have a better way of doing it, which why i sent the
patch in; thanks.

> >  
> > +dist-hook-local: all-local
> >  
> >  ####################################
> >  # Everything below here is generic #
> 
> I assume that this is meant to be _below_ 

i wasn't sure - but had guessed so.  will move it and fix like you
suggest.



jacob
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