[Nut-upsdev] a few build nits

[Jim Klimov]

Regarding distcheck, like in other autotools projects, it was historically
geared towards testing that "everything" (`--with-all`) can be built from
tarball, not relying on git/svn/... sources (and possibly relying on
generated files like the copy of configure script itself) - and so to check
that we `dist` everything needed (maintain `EXTRA_DIST` mostly). It
implicitly assumes that the "maintainer's system" is able to build the
whole ecosystem, and "others" have moderate need to dist(check) beside
verifying they can and did not break it. Eventually this allows to publish
the tarball release with peace of mind.

  It was later extended for some CI scenarios (e.g. bypass docs or not, as
a big time hog and disk space user for TeX tooling) and more swathes of
code and build/dist scenarios in forks like 42ity/nut, so nowadays that's
tunable by passing DISTCHECK_FLAGS and/or DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS
make/env vars...

  You might like to `make distcheck-light` for its `--with-all=auto` mode
-- specifically to test against dependencies *your* system has. Alas, not
all OSes ship the whole range of third-party code NUT can build against.

Jim

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022, 19:02 Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:

>
> * make check
>
> When I run make check, the good news is that it seems to pass
> everything.
>
> But it looks like it is building man pages that maybe should have been
> built during the build.
>
>   [snip]
>   Making check in docs
>   Making check in man
>   make  check-local
>   PASSED man-source sanity check (checked 130 files)
>     DOC-MAN  Generating hosts.conf.5
>     DOC-MAN  Generating upsset.conf.5
>     DOC-MAN  Generating upsstats.html.5
>     DOC-MAN  Generating upsset.cgi.8
>   [snip]
>
> * make install
>
> looks good
>
> * make distcheck
>
> This fails because of missing libneon, but the earlier configure worked.
> Is the configure intentionally forcing on all optional things?
>
> _______________________________________________
> Nut-upsdev mailing list
> Nut-upsdev at alioth-lists.debian.net
> https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsdev
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/nut-upsdev/attachments/20220331/028e7507/attachment-0001.htm>