Re: [Plplot-devel] The infamous "missing" strikes again

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> * Joao Cardoso <jc...@fe...> [2003-03-03 20:53]:
>
> > After a fresh cvs checkout, running bootstrap.sh
> >
> > [jcard@feup] ./bootstrap.sh
> > Running aclocal (GNU automake) 1.7.2... done
> > Running autoheader (GNU Autoconf) 2.57... done
> > Running automake (GNU automake) 1.7.2... done
> > Running libtoolize (GNU libtool) 1.4.3... done
> > Running autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.57... done
> >
> > taring, ftp to an  alphaev6-dec-osf4.0f system, untaring and running configure
> > gave several errors:
> >
> > [...]
>
> This technique is error-prone.  The correct approach is to generate a
> tarball with "make dist".  Unfortunately, make dist does not work perfectly
> yet (but will for the next release, hopefully).

I agree you do have to be careful with making a tarball, but on the other
hand it is almost as straightforward as avoiding pitfalls when developing
with cvs.  You must start with a clean tree, and you need the correct
version of swig and autotools on your system where you are preparing the
tarball.  The only peculiar thing is two files need to be touched if you are
not using my script.

Note that scripts/make_tarball.sh touches two files so that autotools are
not invoked on the system where the tarball is being used. That script also
does the appropriate swig and perl preparation so you won't need swig or
perl on the system where the tarball is being used.

Until Rafael can get make dist to work, using this script is probably your
best bet for preparing a clean tree for a tarball.  Just now, I have
commented out getting access to our documentation results from the website
because those files are changing.  I will put them back in correct form
later once our documentation settles down (and if make dist continues not to
work), but for now, nobody needs those documentation results.

Let me know if you have any trouble generating a tarball with the script and
testing it on your Linux system.  If the tarball works on Linux (i.e., no
autotools or swig execution and build, install, and plplot-test.sh are fine)
but does not work on other platforms, that is a pretty clear indication that
cross-platform issues have crept into CVS again.

Alan
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Programming affiliations with the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and
Analysis (www.cccma.bc.ec.gc.ca) and the PLplot scientific plotting software
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