Re: 'make distcheck' passing

[PhilipNienhuis]

PhilipNienhuis wrote
> 
> Rik-4 wrote
>> 11/2/13
>> 
>> At least on a Linux system the build system can successfully create
>> release
>> candidates.  There is still a problem with some of the images in the
>> manual
>> that have legends.  But, I think it would not hurt to start trying to
>> build
>> a release candidate through MXE-Octave; This is bound to expose more
>> issues.
> What do you mean exactly with "release candidate"? A binary distribution
> that can be installed on Windows?
> 
> If so: I've been regularly building them (about daily to every other day)
> the last months and test them at home and at work. And use them for
> productivity as well.
> 
> If you want me to supply one I'll gladly put one up. I already had vague
> plans for that but I haven't sorted out yet how; I intented to discuss
> that here first. 
> Maybe Octave-Forge would be a good place? My Dropbox has some issues
> lately and I don't know if has bandwidth limitations.
> 
> Note that I have my own mxe-mods simply because I use it for daily work
> (first of all newest Octave ("tip"); newer or even newest plus some extra
> OF packages compared to original mxe-octave; documentation in html & pdf
> (but no Start Menu links code yet in the installer); Java class libs for
> spreadsheet I/O) => so usually these binaries are about 200 MB compared to
> ~160 MB for "plain vanilla" mxe-octave builds.

Forgot to mention:
I cross-build them by first building Octave on/for Linux and running "make
check", then do "make all dist" and transplant that <dist>.tar.gz to
mxe-octave for building.
How much does "make distcheck" differ from "make all dist"?

Philip



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