[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Releasing an application...

[From: Simon Budig]

Mayank Jain (mayank.gnu at gmail.com) wrote:
> How do I clean the project directory, ie the files generated by my
> ./autogen.sh & ./configure scripts? Have a look at the project
> directory... How can i clean it up so as i can tar the directory &
> release it. Are there any general guidelines (except maemo tutorial)
> to make & release project tarballs? Also, which are the file that
> should be included in a tarball?

Usually tarballs leave it to the user to do the ./configure step, the
automake/autoconf step is usually done by the developer.

To get rid of the Makefile etc. try a make maintainer-clean.

The autotools also provide a way to create the tarball, but I have no
experience with that.

Bye,
        Simon
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