Re: [Wireshark-announce] Wireshark 1.12.0rc3 is now available

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>]

On 31 July 2014 11:42, Bálint Réczey <balint () balintreczey hu> wrote:

> 2014-07-31 12:34 GMT+02:00 Peter Wu <peter () lekensteyn nl>:
> > On Wednesday 30 July 2014 14:35:06 Gerald Combs wrote:
> > > After comparing the tarballs generated by "make dist" and
> > > "git-export-release.sh" I have to agree. Both have issues but the "dist"
> > > tarball will build according to our documentation on Linux, Windows, and
> > > OS X.
> > >
> > > "make dist" is missing:
> > >   - Quite a bit under asn1. asn1/*/CMakeLists.txt, gnm, gprscdr,
> > >     and other assorted files.
> > >   - Several CMake modules
> > >   - Many files under debian
> > >   - Many docbook files
> > >   - Several READMEs in doc
> > >   - Many files in plugins
> > >   - Most (all?) files in tools
> > >
> > > "git-export-release.sh" is missing:
> > >   - ./configure, install-sh, other Autotoolery
> > >   - Files generated using Bison/Flex
> > >   - help/faq.txt
> > >   - packaging/macosx/Info.plist
> > >   - plugins/*/plugin.c
> > >   - ui/*/*shark-tap-register.c
> > >
> > > It looks like you can't build from a "dist" tarball using CMake which is
> > > something we should fix.
> >
> > Instead of relying on autotools to generate the distribution tarball, one
> > could also (temporarily) add all generated files to git and use git to
> build
> > the tarball.
> >
> > Something like this (ensure that you have no other files in your git
> tree!):
> > git clean -xfd # Ensure clean working dir (destructive!)
> > ./autogen.sh
> > ./configure
> > find -name Makefile* -print0 | xargs -0 git add -f
> > git add ... configure, config.status, bison, flex, etc...
> > git commit -q -m "Release"
> > git archive --prefix=... HEAD | xz -9 > ....tar.gz
> > git reset --hard HEAD~ # Return to previous version
> Please don't do that.
>
> > Another thing to consider is the availability of cmake which does not
> require
> > additional files in a distribution tarball like autotools. If all
> platforms
> > support cmake, what about dropping the autotools-generated stuff?
> +1 for dropping autotools in favor of CMake. CMake already covers all
> my use cases.
> I also support dropping nmake, but since I'm not building on Windows I
> can't tell if CMake is complete enough.
>
> Not yet.  Working on it though.


-- 
Graham Bloice

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