Re: 'make dist' take 2

At the moment we do not use Autoconf for win32 building - we use the old
diving make system. Does this commit change anything with that system?
(I already use "make dist" with the standard makefiles to build
everything, so I hope this didn't break that - I was hoping we were
almost ready for 2.5.0 on windows side)

If you could clarify just how I am supposed to use this and what is
different/better compared to the diving make system, that would be
appreciated (since last time I heard, automake'd binaries on windows had
no icons or dialogs, and I just got done getting the existing makefiles
to build using all our shared libraries now :D )

Ryan

Robert Staudinger wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> some more work has been done to get 'make dist' tarballs ready for the
> impending 2.5 release. So all "Makefile"s for building on win32 should
> be included now, at least for the cvs modules "abi" and
> "abiword-plugins".
>
> Please, win32 developers, if you could test building from tarballs on
> win32, that'd be a great help. Creating a tarball is as simple as
> running "make dist" in a configured toplevel source dir. Probably a
> handful files is still missing in the tarballs, but fixing that should
> be mostly a matter of adding the missing files to EXTRA_DIST in the
> corresponding GNUmakefile.am.
> I could provide tarballs if need be, but we'd have some round-trip
> delay in that case.
>
> Also, again, please when rewriting plugins or creating new ones please
> add all headers to the corresponding _SOURCES variable and make sure
> to have all the needed includes in GNUmakefile.am for building
> out-of-source-dir.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
>

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