This would have found earlier things such as issue #6, and since it's
only done in distcheck, doesn't impact normal users (for whom
`-Werror` is a bit too strict).
This is much more comprehensive than just 'make' since it actually
runs the binaries (--version mode) and checks that the distributed
archive is complete.
This patch reworks the directory-related variables to allow
installation of binaries under `/usr/[s]bin`, instead of directly
under `/[s]bin`. It also allows installing the man pages under a
different prefix (e.g. `/usr/local`).
Example:
$ make install EXEC_PREFIX=/usr
will install binaries under `/usr/bin`, respectively `/usr/sbin`. A
full "local" installation under `/usr/local` is accomplished by:
$ make install EXEC_PREFIX=/usr/local PREFIX=/usr/local
This patch points once again that an autoconf/automake conversion
would make a lot of sense…
Closes#3. Additionally, it fixes a previous bug with installation of
the manual pages.
Short of moving to autotools, this is the best that can be done:
- move the version from hardcoded in the .c files, to a
dynamically-built `version.h` file so that we only declare the
version in one place
- build a better dist file (.tar.gz) by explicitly selecting which
files to copy, instead of unbounded recursion from the source
directory
- ensure that the files being copied to the archive have a sane
user/group and mode
- add a distcheck target that simply reuses the archive to build and
run the programs, and then regenerate the archive from itself
autotools would solve all this by default, but still feels too
heavyweight for just two .c files.
Additionall, drop the .lsm file. It seems mostly useless these days;
I'll be happy to reinstate it however if anyone cares.
Instead of split per tool, migrate to a single README file, and move
all the changelog information to a separate CHANGELOG file; both new
files are in markdown format.
Additionally, note the handover of package maintainership starting
with the (to-be-released) 1.2 version.
While looking at Fedora's build spec for mt-st, I saw that they recode
the README.stinit file to UTF-8; this makes a lot of sense, so let's
recode all non-UTF files in UTF-8.
Commit 0ca6864 changed CFLAGS to be taken from the environment, but
without using any default value. This patch restores the old CFLAGS
value as the default one.
When using the default tape device (no $TAPE env. var and no explicit
tape given), check that it is indeed a character device; this will
help with better error messages on systems using udev, where /dev/tape
is a directory instead.
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