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Add automake to the build process #2

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rfairley opened this issue Nov 14, 2018 · 2 comments
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Add automake to the build process #2

rfairley opened this issue Nov 14, 2018 · 2 comments

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This involves adding automake to the project and anything else that automake needs to be supported.

This is useful for things like build macros, which are enclosed with @ throughout source files (see an example in Cockpit. Having macros for directories, source file paths and names would ensure the source files and the specfile are in sync. It also means the package name can easily be changed with minimal manual changes.

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rfairley commented Nov 15, 2018

Adding automake will also provide a standardized for creating a distribution package of the source code https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/The-dist-Hook.html#The-dist-Hook.

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