tree a0a82a718ece1fcdd6300a98e39717cc218631e1
parent 46417607e67f89a5c9948d4deed6ad8ead51318d
author David Turner <david.turner.dev@gmail.com> 1598381552 +0200
committer Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org> 1600673271 +0200

Add python script for building tarballs.

* scripts/make_distribution_archives.py: New file.

This standalone Python script should be equivalent to running `make
dist` with the Make-based build system, with the following minor
differences:

- Since `make distclean` doesn't always clean up `objs/` properly,
  `make dist` archives may contain some stale binaries like
  `objs/.libs/libfreetype.so.6` or others.

- `config.guess` and `config.sub` are not updated unless option
  `--gnu-config-dir=DIR` is used to specify the location of these
  files.

- Some bits of the auto-generated reference documentation may
  appear in slightly different order, probably due to issues related
  to mkdocs and docwriter.

As an example, the call

  scripts/make_distribution_archives.py /tmp/freetype2-dist

creates the following files under `/tmp/freetype2-dist`:

  freetype-<version>.tar.gz
  freetype-<version>.tar.xz
  ft<winversion>.zip