Re: [Nano-devel] GNU nano 2.1.2

[Chris Allegretta]

Yeah, we could do it in bootstrap but I don't run the boostrap every
time I create the disribution files.  I guess the point is implementing
this kind of update as in Makefile.am tweak like a -local section, or
overrriding a section like dist: completely, has the problem that its
enforcing this update on everyone who runs make dist (or what have you)
and not just the package maintainer.  I can just add it to my nano
distribution script in the meantime until the Right Way makes itself
evident.

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:

Chris Allegretta wrote:
> I think we need something like this to be done automaitcally like
> you say Benno, otherwise it will just get forgotten or dropped.
> I tried adding the rsync as a dist-hook in Makefile.am but it
> does not seem to be doing the right thing.  It seems like other
> people using almost vanilla Makefile.ams would have already
> needed to solve this problem before now.

coreutils and tar do this in their bootstrap script, so maybe nano
could do this in autogen.sh?

The only package I found doing it in a Makefile (but still not fully
automatically), is shared-mime-info:

 cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvs/mime/ \
     co  shared-mime-info/Makefile.am

Benno