{"id":192,"date":"2008-08-08T20:17:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T04:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.colliertech.org\/cj\/?p=192"},"modified":"2008-08-08T20:17:29","modified_gmt":"2008-08-09T04:17:29","slug":"writing-free-software-part-6-making-a-simple-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"Writing Free Software – Part 6: Making a simple distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might remember from a previous post that we’ve already got a “dist” target which creates a tarball of the source. However, the source doesn’t include any of the code we wrote, only the files generated by autotools. In this article, we’ll make the modifications to the Makefile.am file required to include our source in the dist tarball.<\/p>\n

Return to our workspace<\/h3>\n

$<\/b> cd ~\/src\/greeting<\/code><\/p>\n

Add an EXTRA_DIST automake variable<\/h3>\n

$<\/b> echo \"EXTRA_DIST = Greeting.cs NDesk.Options.cs\" >> Makefile.am<\/code><\/p>\n

Re-build our Makefile<\/h3>\n

$<\/b> .\/configure<\/code><\/p>\n

Test the distdir target<\/h3>\n

$<\/b> make distdir
\n...
\n$<\/b> ls greeting-0.0.1
\nAUTHORS Greeting.cs Makefile.in README configure.ac
\nCOPYING INSTALL NDesk.Options.cs aclocal.m4 install-sh
\nChangeLog Makefile.am NEWS configure missing
\n$<\/b> make dist
\n...
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/h3>\n

Another short one. Sorry for the brevity. But as you can see, a little bit goes a long way.<\/p>\n\n

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