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Re: Make dist


On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 4:37 AM, John Darrington
<john@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer.
>
> But how do I use the src-release file?  It seems to be a
> makefile.  But from what directory should I run it?  and do I
> need to pass it arguments or what?
>
> From the source directory I get:
>
> ~/binutils/src$ make -f src-release
> make: *** No rule to make target `list-of-support-files-for-tool-in-question', needed by `taz'.  Stop.
>
> and from the build directory I get:
>
> john@muse:/Scratch/john/binutils$ make -f ~/binutils/src/src-release
> make: *** No rule to make target `README', needed by `taz'.  Stop.
>
>
> ????

Run it in the build directory, but tell it which release you want to
build.  It's used for a few different tools.

make -f SRCDIR/src-release binutils.tar.bz2

Ian


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