Developers of Sympa

[Stefan Hornburg <address@concealed>]

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:28:25 +0100
Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed> wrote:

> 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
> 

I'm running the UNIX command-line client.

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

I'm aware of that. I need to test some aspects of the alias manager and would 
like to
do it with the latest sources.

> 
> > 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

Aha. Thanks.

Ciao
          Racke