[darcs-devel] darcs patch: Save Context.hs when creating 'dist' tar ball.

[marnix at marnux]

Fri Dec 30 20:53:16 MET 2005  Marnix Klooster <marnix.klooster at gmail.com>
  * Save Context.hs when creating 'dist' tar ball.

This is to prevent "darcs --exact-version" outputting something like

 darcs compiled on Mar  2 2005, at 10:56:16
 unknown

as it does when building from the output of "make dist", e.g., from the
official tarballs at darcs.net.  (This is what a lot of people and distros do.
Gentoo does this, and I'm using Gentoo, and I want to be able to do "darcs
--exact-version" and have it output something sensible.)

The reason that this problem occurs is that while doing 'make predist' (in the
'predist' preference), Context.hs was nicely preserved by predist_copy, but
then thrown away by distclean.  So the resulting tarball has no Context.hs,
which results in the "unknown" exact version.

I don't really like the way I solved this; if someone has a better way, feel
free to drop this patch and supply a different one.

Groetjes,
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Marnix

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