NeXus Data Format Developer Notes

Modifying Autotools (Makefile.am, configure.ac)

If you modify any of the autotools files you also need to check that the automatic hourly built distribution kit (nexus-latest.tar.gz) will still get made correctly before you commit the files to Subversion. You can do this by typing:

make distcheck

which will generate a kit and then run configure, make and make install on it. If you need/wish to pass any special arguments to configure you can do this by setting the DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS environment variable e.g.

env DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="--with-f90=g95 --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm" make distcheck

If all is OK, you will get a final message saying:

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nexus-3.0.1 archives ready for distribution:
nexus-3.0.1.tar.gz
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