Re: [Maxima-discuss] Maxima 5.38.0

[Robert D. <rob...@gm...>]

On 2016-03-31, Wolfgang Dautermann <wol...@da...> wrote:

> And concerning the creation of tarballs with "make dist-gzip":
> sometimes files in the git repo did not get included, because they were
> missing somewhere in the autoconf build system.
> Git can also create tarballs, perhaps the following procedure should be
> used instead of a "make dist-gzip"?

Well, I think we need to ensure that git tarballs contain the same items
as dist-gzip tarballs. At present these are somewhat different. I
haven't investigated whether the differences would cause problems, but
if you are interested in pursuing this idea, perhaps you can look into
it and let us know.

best

Robert Dodier