[libvirt] [PATCH] Don't ship autogen.sh in release tarballs

[Eric Blake]

On 04/13/2017 10:06 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> autogen.sh is only useful for developers, not users, and we
> expect developers to have a git checkout handy, so there's
> no point in shipping the script in release tarballs.

I'm worried this breaks the GPL. autogen.sh is our preferred way for
rebuilding autotools in preparation for a release, and thus I think the
script belongs in a tarball even if it is not expected to be used by the
end user.

> 
> autobuild.sh uses autogen.sh, so don't ship that either.
> ---
>  Makefile.am | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
> index c6324f5..0efd8be 100644
> --- a/Makefile.am
> +++ b/Makefile.am
> @@ -36,9 +36,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \
>    libvirt-qemu.pc.in \
>    libvirt-lxc.pc.in \
>    libvirt-admin.pc.in \
> -  autobuild.sh \
>    Makefile.nonreentrant \
> -  autogen.sh \
>    cfg.mk \
>    run.in \
>    AUTHORS.in
> 

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3266
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org

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