Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about adding new files and making autotools happy

[Josh Blum]

The tarball is generated when you run "make dist" from a bootstrapped 
build tree. This tarball contains the files generated from doing the 
bootstrap (all the makefile.ins, configure, so on...)

You could think of it this way: a bootstrapped build does not have a way 
of comprehending its pre-bootstrapped state. So you get a tarball of a 
bootstrapped build tree... Its the autotools way.

-Josh

CAS wrote:
> Thanks for the question and response as this also helps me with the 
> problems I was having.  Can you explain this also in the context of the 
> instructions that say not to run ./bootstrap if building from the 
> tarball?  Indeed, I find that if I run ./bootstrap after unpacking the 
> tarball it has a tough time finding all the pieces, but works fine if I 
> just unpack and ./configure && make && make install.  Thanks again for 
> the assistance.
>
> CAS
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