63.4 Debian Building the Distribution
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)
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