Re: [Tinycc-devel] VPATH builds

[Akim Demaille]

Le 19 déc. 2012 à 15:20, grischka <address@hidden> a écrit :

> Akim Demaille wrote:
>>>> I can provide help to provide other useful targets, such as 
> >>> "make dist" and "make distcheck".
>>> Thomas who manages a distro (debian) might want to comment.
> 
> Sorry, I meant: Thomas manages a tcc package for the debian distro.
> 
>> It is not so much related to distros than to the ability
>> to wrap correct tarballs.
> 
> I see.  Our tarballs here were made from a fresh git checkout except
> that tcc-doc.html was added and win32/build-tcc.bat was converted
> to CRLF endings:
>    http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/tinycc/
> 
> See also:
>    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2012-12/msg00006.html

Thanks for the pointer.

Well, it is very handy to have a trustable make dist,
and make distcheck, as you can fired it much more often,
or even hook a build farm on it.  Also, it helps checking
before pushing.

Time permitting, I'll provide an example of what I have
in mind.