[darcs-users] Building a "snapshot" source tarball

[Jason Dagit]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Trent W. Buck <twb at cybersource.com.au>wrote:

> I wanted to test my Debianization of Darcs against the latest checkout.
> This requires an "upstream" source tarball (like you see on hackage).
> I couldn't work out how to make the tarball.  I tried:
>
>    $ darcs dist
>    autoconf: error: no input file
>    Dist aborted due to predist failure
>
>    $ cabal configure
>    Resolving dependencies...
>    Configuring darcs-2.3.1...
>

Try adding a "cabal build" right here.  I think because we autogenerate some
stuff that sdist doesn't work the way it "normally" does. [Note: I haven't
tried it myself, I'm just speculating.]

Jason
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