Project Publishing and build configurations

[Tommy Li]

Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 29.03.07 15:30:06, Tommy Li wrote:
>> Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>>> On 29.03.07 11:26:37, Tommy Li wrote:
>>>> I've found the project publishing feature of Kdevelop, but how do I 
>>>> choose which build configuration to publish? I didn't find an option for 
>>>> that.
>>> Uhm, I have no idea how that works, but in general the packaging support
>>> is unmaintained since quite some time and AFAIK doesn't work out of the
>>> box (except for the source package). So I advise against using it.
>>>
>>> Andreas
>>>
>> How can I package my kdevelop projects into something I can let users 
>> download and perform a "./configure" "make" standard sequence on then?
> 
> That part is covered by the source packaging stuff. I thought you were
> using the rpm-part, because you said you need to know the build config.
> For creating a source package the build configuration is totally
> irrelevant. That just packs together your source,
> Makefile.am+Makefile.in+configure and thats it.
> 
> If you don't use the packaging option, you'd have to tar -gz the sources
> yourselfs. Best done with a fresh version (i.e. no make -f Makefile.cvs
> run yet) and then run make -f Makefile.cvs. Then put that into a tar and
> you're done.
> 
> Andreas
> 

Why is it irrelevant for a source package? Don't I need to include in 
the source package information on which libraries the user must link 
with -- and whether its built in optimized or debug mode?

Tommy