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List:       hurd-bug
Subject:    Re: ``make dist'' and friends
From:       Barry deFreese <bddebian () comcast ! net>
Date:       2006-11-29 15:08:39
Message-ID: 456DA277.2060303 () comcast ! net
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>>>> That seems to be correct.  I hope that doing so doesn't break anything.
>>>> (Thinking about the rules in `Makerules.am' that deal with those files.)
>>>> But you should have noticed if it had...
>>>>         
>
> I decided to add the `.srv' and `.cli' files to `EXTRA_DIST' instead.
>
>
>   
>>> OK gang, I've gotten pretty far but now I'm a little confused.  I had 
>>> to include linux/src/drivers/scsi/FlashPoint.c because BusLogic.c 
>>> includes.  But now it is attempting to build FlashPoint.c and failing.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> But afaict, in a normal (i.e. not from make dist's tarball), 
>>> FlashPoint.c is not build.
>>>       
>
> Correct.
>
>   
>> Also, I meant to mention.  I suppose one way around this may be to add
>> FlashPoint.c to EXTRA_DIST instead of inside of a
>> dist_liblinux_a_SOURCES target?
>>     
>
> Correct.  This and similar other files should also be added to
> `EXTRA_DIST' instead of some `*_SOURCES'.
>
>
>   
>>> I am attaching a diff of what I have done so far.
>>>       
>
> Barry, thanks for the patch, it was of great help!
>
> I integrated it into a local tree here at home, changed and added some
> bits, began testing it to eventually commit it into the cvs repository,
> but before I was able to finish the testing, I hit another Automake bug,
> I believe, which I then reported to <bug-automake@gnu.org>.  So we now
> have to wait until that is resolved.
>
>
> Regards,
>  Thomas
>   

Thomas,

Great thanks.  It's funny, I originally had all the .cli and .srv files 
in EXTRA_DIST.. Doh.

So, should I pretty much stop working on this at this point?

Thanks again!

Barry


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