Porting to OS/2: First port #5 distribution
Source distribution To port FLAC, what we do first is to download a source tarball. If you want to distribute your port, you can want to distribute with a patched source tarball. How can we do that ? Autotools provides a method to do this. It provides several archive type, but on our platform, .zip is popular. To archive a source tarball as .zip, use dist-zip target when calling make. gmake dist-zip Of course, zip should be installed first, and use gmake.cmd instead of make. Otherwise, you may encounter this error. Colored By Color Scripter ™ 1 2 3 4 5 make.exe[2]: Entering directory `F:/lang/work/flac/flac-1.3.0/src/share ' cp: cannot create regular file ' ../../flac-1.3.0/src/share/getopt/getopt.c ': No such file or directory make.exe[2]: *** [distdir] Error 1 make.exe[2]: Leaving directory `F:/lang/work/flac/flac-1.3.0/src/share' I recommend to use gmake.cmd instea...