Re: Roundup of GNUPLOT conversion issues

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

Am 29.10.2017 um 20:31 schrieb Daniel J Sebald:

> I don't think the exact tarballs are there.  I sort of have a 
> recollection of whenever a release was to be made, the tarball required 
> some extra effort on someone's part.

Not back then they didn't.  The tarballs can be generated directly from 
a fresh working copy, just by running

	./configure && make dist

But all that effectively does is make a version-named copy of the source 
tree without "CVS" directories and .cvsignore files, and tarball that.

Any actual differences between that and the official release tarball are 
down to either

a) auto-tools of different versions being re-run at 'make' time, or
b) last-minute fixes applied directly to the tarball, manually

Only when we switched to automake, dropped all generated files from the 
repository, and started using the 'prepare' script instead, did tarball 
contents start to be really different from fresh working copies of their 
corresponding CVS tags.