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making a source package for distribution

valen16

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Thursday, May 20th 2004, 11:17am

making a source package for distribution

Hi,
how do I make from a qmake project a source .tar.gz package?
Means a package which installs automaticly my programm using
./configure
./make (or qmake?)
make install

wysota

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Thursday, May 20th 2004, 2:17pm

RE: making a source package for distribution

make dist
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valen16

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Thursday, May 20th 2004, 3:16pm

and how do I add files which should be copied upon installation in ~/.programmname

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Thursday, May 20th 2004, 4:58pm

First of all, qmake itself won't generate you configure, it just makes makefiles. To use configure, use have to use autoconf and automake (kdevelop is very useful for preparing everything). And when you do, one of the targets made will be "dist", which will pack all the files needed into a tar.gzip archive, so you just need to add files you want included to your project (in kdevelop, I don't use automake standalone).
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Thursday, May 20th 2004, 4:58pm

this isn't done by the ./configure-make-makeinstall installation but by your program when it's started the first time (if this wasn't the case you could not add new users without an additional effort (because they lack the .progname directory and configurations) and you couldn't delete the dir either without getting problems (for resetting f***ed up configuration))

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