Re: package creation

[Adam Monsen <haircut at gmail dot com>]

Automake will create a 'dist' target for you:
"The `dist' rule in the generated `Makefile.in' can be used to
generate a gzip'd `tar' file and other flavors of archive for
distribution."
This is from 'info automake dist'.

This distributable gzip'd tarball contains files to be installed and
install scripts. Automake also makes a 'make uninstall' that does what
you'd expect.

Here's a place you could start to learn more about this:
http://adammonsen.com/tut/libgladeTest.html
(see  "Other Resources")

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:48:12 -0700, Gustavo A. Baratto
<gbaratto@superb.net> wrote:
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> hello all, 
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> I thought this was a very well requested feature, but I after searching on the mailing list archives, I found out that it is not... 
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> Basically, what I looking for is a 'make package' rule, where all the files that would be installed, plus an install script could be tarred up together, so we can copy the tarball to many diferent servers, unpack it, run the script, and the files get installed without the need of copying over or nfs mounting the whole source code? Not a fancy full blown package like rpm. 
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> Maybe the install script would have an uninstall feature as well (I have seen a thread requesting this). 
>   
> I know nothing about automake except for running make,make install and make distclean... but I would be willing to help... 
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>   


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