Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Makefiles

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:32:20 -0500
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 12:04:49PM -0500, David Frascone wrote:
> 
> 
> The packages I generate (by doing autogen.sh; make distclean) don't seem
> to work very well on Solaris.  (The makefiles die a horrible death)
> 
> What do I need to do to make a distributable package?  I've got some folks
> folk testing my diameter changes, and I've had to modify the normal
> distribution package, instead of building one from my CVS sources.

Just make sure you have recent versions of autoconf and automake.

Compile as normal:

./autogen
make

Then to make the package:

make dist

This will use the version number in configure.in to make a tar
file called ethereal-version.tar.gz.

To check the package (that is, can you re-build a package using your
package):

make distcheck

--gilbert