Re: Seeking advice: preparing releases on GuixSD.

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

ng0 <ng0@libertad.pw> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> ng0 <ng0@libertad.pw> writes:
>>
>>> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> What I get is a tarball named “gnurl--.tar.gz” (because “configure.ac”
>>>> specifies the version as a dash).  Unpacking it I see exactly *one*
>>>> reference to something in /gnu/store and that’s in “ltmain.sh”.
>>>
>>> Hm.. that's what I had too before I asked here, I just felt there
>>> must be 0 occurences of /gnu/store.
>>
>> You wrote earlier:
>>
>>> 3. Simply remove all occurences of any /gnu/store/… (if it's
>>>    that simple) which could also happen in (2).
>>
>> That made it sound like there are countless references that need to be
>> corrected somehow.
>
> Well in 7.52.0 there are more than 1 reference to /gnu/store, and
> in 7.52.1 there were more than in 7.52.0 simply because I did not
> have the time to investigate what's wrong now.

If you did what I did on GuixSD (exact sequence in my previous email) I
don’t see how there could have been any more references to store items.

>> “ltmain.sh” is instantiated from a template by libtool.  It originally
>> contains a /bin/sh shebang, and I think it should not be patched when
>> installed to
>
> So I can assume that just changing the shebang in ltmain.sh back
> to /bin/sh is enough to make it distributable again, or is
> ltmain.sh something distributions have anyway and the local file
> is "just there"?

ltmain.sh is included by “make dist”, so it’s supposed to be
distributed.  One of the big ideas of autotools is that users don’t have
to have autotools to build a release tarball.

-- 
Ricardo

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