On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Tim Jenness wrote:
> On Apr 7, 2009, at 7:28 AM, Peter W. Draper wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Tim Jenness wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Peter W. Draper wrote:
>>>
>>>> David,
>>>> can you revisit: 849d270cad, cnf: Do not include old cnf.h file in "make
>>>> dist" tar file? That change means that "cnf.h" is no longer installed and
>>>> is breaking a lot of old code.
>>>
>>> I didn't even realise that people were using the make dist targets, let
>>> alone using recent git builds to generate them. I'm impressed.
>>>
>>> Shouldn't make install create a soft link though? Or do the copy from
>>> f77.h to cnf.h? No reason to have both in the tar ball.
>>
>> Yes, if I was doing that job I'd add an installation hook for creating a
>> softlink from f77.h to cnf.h. Since DSB is relaxing somewhere, I've
>> committed a fix.
>>
>
> Thanks, but can you comment on the myriad make dist users?
Who me, not really. The only time I use the dist targets is when building
from source on an odd system (like JNIAST under mingw), where I don't want
everything. I thought David just kept the AST dist target working for
source releases, so why CNF, I've no idea.
> People still get confused by the CVS repository and old downloads sitting on
> the old starlink web site.
Yes, all that needs to be switched off now.
Peter.
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