Developers of Sympa

[Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed>]

Hi Stephan,

Stefan Hornburg wrote:
> I have two problems with the sources from CVS.
>
> First thing, the checkout/update process just stalls somewhere at the end:
>
> [...]
> S-> rename(CVS/Entries.Backup,CVS/Entries)
> S-> unlink_file(CVS/Entries.Log)

What CVS client do you use ?
It works fine with the UNIX command-line CVS client :
        cvs -d :pserver:address@concealed:/home/sympa/cvsroot login
        cvs -d :pserver:address@concealed:/home/sympa/cvsroot export -D 
today sympa

But we recommend not to run any CVS verisions of Sympa. Some might be much 
instable.
Only tagged versions should be safely used.

> Second, I tried to make a tar archive with "make dist". I followed the 
> instructions in INSTALL:
> [...]
> Then I ran make dist and the resulting tar archive contains only files from 
> the top level
> directory.
>
> Any comments and suggestions will be appreciated.

We have not coded the 'make dist' ; it has been included in the Makefile by 
automake but
because we only use automake in the main Makefile (not in subdirectories) the 
generated tar.gz
in not correct.

Here is how we build our tar.gz :
(Example: $cvs_version could be sympa-3_4_3 ; $version_sympa could be 
sympa-3.4.3)

        cvs export -r $cvs_version -d $version sympa
        automake -a ; aclocal ; autoconf
        make documentation
        /bin/tar -cvf $version.tar $version
        /usr/bin/gzip $version.tar

BTW : Sympa 3.4.3, the latest stable release of Sympa will be announced this 
week. It only
contains bug fixes from 3.4.2.

--
Olivier Salaun
Comite Reseau des Universites