Make distcheck

[Derek Atkins]

I would just send one set of patches.  But how you break it up is
up to you.

-derek

David Hampton <hampton@employees.org> writes:

> I've been working for some time to get this make torture test working,
> and I believe I've finally finished (except for a problem or two in the
> intltool utilities).  For anyone who hasn't looked at it, the 'make
> distcheck' command does the following:
> 
>   1) make dist
>   2) Untar the distribution into a new directory
>   -- In the new source tree --
>   3) Run autogen.sh, setting up split source and build directories.
>   4) Make the sources read-only
>   5) make
>   6) make dvi
>   7) make check
>   8) make install
>   9) make installcheck
>  10) make uninstall
>  11) Checks to insure that all installed files were removed
>  12) make dist
>  13) make distclean
>  14) Checks to insure that all generated files were removed
>  15) Deletes the new source tree
> 
> I found a few files that weren't being included in the distribution
> tarball, and a few other generated files that weren't being cleaned up.
> 
> Almost all of my changes were to Makefile.am files, to allow for the
> split source and build directories.  Mostly swapping a source/build
> declarations, although a few of the test directory makefiles needed some
> extra load paths added to pick up both the static and the generated scm
> files (which are in separate directories for this test).  The other
> changes were to a handful of test files to remove hard coded path
> names.  I did have to tweak a 'gnucash' or 'g-wrapped' symlink here or
> there in the split tree so that the modules would correctly load for the
> test cases.  In all instances, this link is unchanged in a combined
> source/build tree.
> 
> I have compared the output of a 'make check' run in the split
> source/build tree to that in a combined source tree, and all tests path
> in both trees.
> 
> How would you like me to proceed from here?  Should I submit the
> complete set of changes to the gnucash-patches list, should I split it
> into several patches, something else?
> 
> David
> 

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       Derek Atkins
       Computer and Internet Security Consultant
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