On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 04:18:37PM +0530, Anand Avati wrote: > all distro packages should begin with the tarball obtained from 'make dist', > which is specifically meant to build a source distribution tarball without > the repository control files in them. What's a bit disturbing is that this tarball is created insode the tree, not one level above (what I'm used to). I suppose there's an idea behind it which I didn't get yet. So the supposed way to build from TLA is: - checkout/update from TLA - make a copy of the whole tree (since there's no Makefile there's no fullclean) - in the working copy, - ./autogen.sh - ./configure --prefix=/usr - make dist - (move the produced tarball somewhere) - unpack the tarball - merge with debian/ and patches obtained from "somewhere" - run dpkg-buildpackage ? Cheers, Steffen
