Upstart and Libnih trunk sources to TAR - how to?

[Casey Dahlin]

Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) wrote:
>  
> We are trying to take a Upsart trunk sources and libnih trunk sources 
> and are following instructions to nihify upstart.
>  
> We had to do an autoreconf - and a ./configure within libnih and then 
> did a nihify from within upstart.
>  
> We then did a tar of the upstart directory including the /nih 
> directory within upstart and moved into our developmental source tree.
>  
> But we are seeing the following error
> make-3.81[2]: Entering directory 
> `/nobackup/spuddupa/nova/contrib/upstart/obj-ppc'
> cd /nobackup/spuddupa/nova/contrib/upstart && /bin/sh 
> /nobackup/spuddupa/nova/contrib/upstart/missing --run autoheader
> aclocal.m4:17: error: this file was generated for autoconf 2.61.
>  
> We had previously tried the 0.3.9 released tar file in our build and 
> was successfully able to ./configure and build the 0.3.9 sources in 
> our environment.
>  
> What is the process yall use to create/release an upstart tar 
> files(such as the 0.3.9 tar file) from the bzr source trunk pulls of 
> upstart and libnih ?
>  
> Thx,
> Sarvi
Don't tar it up yourself. Use autoconf's distribution maker. Just type 
"make dist" after you ./configure upstart

--CJD