Re: module releasing HOWTO ?

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Mark McLoughlin wrote:

> 8) Do a autogen && make && make install && make distcheck. Fix any
>    issues that crop up. Hopefully there are none because they can be a
>    right PITA - especially distcheck errors.

since getting make distcheck to work can be a real pain, especially after
development went on for some time without a release, it can be helpfull
and less time consuming to fix the project up to where it builds with
srcdir!=builddir before atempting make distcheck.
and since i've had tarballs break on me which passed make distcheck, i'm
always trying to build and install the release tarball in a seperate /tmp
or similar environment before actually loading it up.

> 15) Get yourself a joffee and mutter "I hate doing this fscking crap".

or try to think "now that was easy!" instead, and you'll start with a more
positive attitude next time ;)


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ciaoTJ