Re: libgsystem as a git submodule, not system wide

[poma <pomidorabelisima gmail com>]

On 02.04.2014 18:41, Thomas Haller wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 14:03 +0200, poma wrote:
> > On 02.04.2014 11:05, Thomas Haller wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 06:32 +0200, poma wrote:
> > > Why the 'libgsystem' is used as a git submodule, and not via the system
> > > > wide setup - 'libgsystem/devel'?
> > >
> > > Because originally libgsystem was not available in distributions (or not
> > > recent enough). That could be revised in the future, if it bothers
> > > somebody enough.
> > >
> > >
> > > > I suppose this is the git way to acquire the source code to build a
> > > > local tarball,
> > > > git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager
> > > > cd NetworkManager/
> > > > git submodule init
> > > > git submodule update
> > > > ./autogen.sh
> > > > cd ../
> > > > tar ...
> > >
> > >
> > > If you want to create a source tarball, a better way might be:
> > >
> > > git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager
> > > cd NetworkManager/
> > > ./autogen.sh --enable-gtk-doc && make && make dist
> > >
> > >
> > > I think, upstream creates it's tarball this way.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Perhaps this is the reason, however it is still a mystery why are
> > > > snapshots created with a blank 'libgsystem/'!?
> > >
> > > I don't understand which snapshots you are referring to. If you do what
> > > you said, you populate libgsystem/ before calling tar.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thomas.
> >
> > ./autogen.sh --enable-gtk-doc
> > ...
> > configure.ac:33: installing 'build-aux/missing'
> > automake: error: cannot open < libgsystem/Makefile-libgsystem.am: No
> > such file or directory
> > autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
> >
> > Snapshots/tarballs:
> > e.g.
> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/
> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/snapshot/NetworkManager-0.9.9.1.tar.gz
> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=e9fdfa1
> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/snapshot/NetworkManager-e9fdfa1.tar.gz
> > etc.
> >
> >
> > poma
>
>
> The "snapshot" provided by the cgit webfrontend only gives you the
> git-tree (but it does not include git-submodules). That is not really
> the same as a source tarball (and as you experience it: it does not work
> out of the box).
>
> If you need a source tarball, create it with `make dist`, for which you
> need a full git checkout. Or just use the git checkout directly.
>
>
> Arguably, it should work just to take the snapshot. But with the
> git-submodule that is not easy, because from the snapshot you loose the
> information which commit of libgsystem you want to check out...
>
>
> Thomas

Thanks for pointing out!


poma