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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.