From: Mike Hall <mghall@...>
Date: 2002-02-07T02:22:07+09:00
Subject: Added a 'dist' rule to mkmf.rb Makefile

Is there any thought of adding a 'dist' rule (to the Makefile
generated by mkmf.rb + extconf.rb pair) to make a distribution
archive for us?

I put this into 'mkmf.rb' last night:

=======
   site-install:   $(sitearchdir)$(target_prefix)/$(DLLIB)
 
+  dist:           all
+         @$(RUBY) -r mktar -e 'mktar'
 
   $(archdir)$(target_prefix)/$(DLLIB): $(DLLIB)
=======

And added this file (mktar.rb) to the Ruby library directory:

=======
#
#       Make a tar.gz distribution file
#       Used from the Makefile generated by mkmf.rb
#
 
def mktar (rev = "0.1")
 
        # get the current version
        open("VERSION") {|f| rev = f.read.chomp}
 
        # prepend our directory to the MANIFEST files
        dir = Dir.pwd.split("/")[-1]
        files = []
        open("MANIFEST") {|f| files = f.readlines}
        files.collect! {|f| dir + "/" + f.chomp}        # stupid chomp
 
        # go up one level, make the tar file
        Dir.chdir ".."
        system( "tar", "czf", "#{dir}-#{rev}.tgz", *files )
end
=================

It lets us 'make dist' to create a tar-gz file in the parent directory,
using the files listed in the MANIFEST file.

--
Mike Hall
http://www.enteract.com/~mghall