Building the Distribution

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Using autoconf we need a configuration file configure.in which contains the version number and other relevant information. See below for an example configure.in

Each of the identified AC_OUTPUT files will be generated by the configure script from the corresponding files suffixed with .in by the ./configure script which is in turn generated by the autoconf command which reads information from configure.in

So, when you change the version number regenerate the configure script with:

$ autoconf

Next time you ./configure the new Makefiles and source code will contain the updated information.

$ ./configure

The Makefile.in in the base directory includes a target to generate a tar file for distribution:

$ make dist

The resulting tar file will be named something like ./wajig-2.0.20.tar.gz. After making the distribution tar file move it to another directory for the convenience of the Debian packaging tools:

$ mv wajig-0.1.1.tar.gz ../../debian/wajig/

An example configure.in is:

dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script. AC_INIT(src/wajig.py) PACKAGE=wajig VERSION=2.0.20 AC_PATH_PROG(PYTHON, python) AC_SUBST(PYTHON) AC_SUBST(PACKAGE) AC_SUBST(VERSION) AC_PROG_INSTALL AC_PROG_MAKE_SET AC_OUTPUT(Makefile src/Makefile src/const.py wajig.sh)