[libvirt] [PATCH] build: drop files generated by config.status from tarball

[Doug Goldstein]

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 10:25:50AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>> The rule of thumb is that any file generated by config.status
>> is a) reproducible by any user, b) dependent on configure options.
>> Therefore, it is inappropriate to include such generated files
>> in the tarball (for proof, Makefile is generated from Makefile.in;
>> the former is not in the tarball while the latter is).
>>
> [...]
>> diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
>> index 0b4ae9d..ecc7435 100644
>> --- a/Makefile.am
>> +++ b/Makefile.am
>> @@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ XML_EXAMPLES = \
>>
>>  EXTRA_DIST = \
>>    ChangeLog-old \
>> -  libvirt.spec libvirt.spec.in \
>> +  libvirt.spec.in \
>
>  Actually that part is wrong. The libvirt.spec need to be in the
> tarball to allow to build rpms from it. This breaks for example "make rpm".
>
>  I reverted that part of the patch,
>
> Daniel
>

Daniel,

Since the Makefile doesn't ship in the tarball but only Makefile.in,
which requires "./configure" be run before "make rpm" be run, that
would mean that you don't need the libvirt.spec to be shipped in the
tarball and you only want libvirt.spec.in and once you run ./configure
it'll generate libvirt.spec. So in fact reverting that change is
incorrect.

Unless of course I'm missing something.



-- 
Doug Goldstein