Generating a snapshot

[Simon Hausmann]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:42:37AM +0100, Luciano Montanaro wrote:
> I have noticed that it should be possible to use "make dist" from the kdenox 
> top level directory to create a tarball for distribution.
> 
> The tarball could not be generated for the HEAD branch, due to missing files/
> obsolete makefiles, so I changed them a bit, and now the tarball is created 
> correctly.
> 
> However, some of the "Makefile.in" files are missing from it.
> 
> Is there some auto* guru out there that could point me in the right direction?
> An example of missing Makefile.in files is 
> kdenox/konq-embed/add-ons/kflashpart/Makefile.in, for example.
> 
> I think I could do the tarball by just exporting the tree and doing a 
> make -f Makefile.cvs
> as I have been doing with the old tarball - which I still have to push to 
> Simon, sorry for the delay - but I'd like to understand what is missing.

I don't think am_edit supports 'make dist'. But what's happening
for KDE releases is checking out the module and calling the dist
target in admin/Makefile.common, I think.

Simon