build: add "git-dist" target for making gzipped tarballs

[public-inbox.git] / Documentation / include.mk

diff --git a/Documentation/include.mk b/Documentation/include.mk
index e948778a4790fef9522f9bc63e4b7b8900492c65..04b33e4f2d7fd7e12f51931640687bef76769aab 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/include.mk
+++ b/Documentation/include.mk
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ RELEASES =
 RELEASES += v1.1.0-pre1
 RELEASES += v1.0.0
 
-NEWS NEWS.atom NEWS.html :
+NEWS NEWS.atom NEWS.html : Documentation/include.mk
        $(PERL) -I lib -w Documentation/mknews.perl $@ $(RELEASES)
 
 # check for internal API changes:
@@ -199,3 +199,17 @@ clean :: clean-doc
 pure_all ::
        @if test x"$(addprefix g, make)" != xgmake; then \
        echo W: gmake is currently required to build manpages; fi
+
+# No camel-cased tarballs or pathnames which MakeMaker creates,
+# this may not always be a Perl project.
+git-dist :: ver = $(shell git describe |sed -ne 's/v//p')
+git-dist :: pkgpfx := public-inbox-$(ver)
+git-dist :: NEWS
+       git archive --prefix=$(pkgpfx)/ --format=tar HEAD^{tree} >$(pkgpfx).tar
+       mkdir -p $(pkgpfx)
+       cp NEWS $(pkgpfx)/NEWS
+       $(TAR) rf $(pkgpfx).tar $(pkgpfx)/NEWS
+       $(RM) $(pkgpfx)/NEWS
+       rmdir $(pkgpfx)
+       gzip -9 $(pkgpfx).tar
+       @echo $(pkgpfx).tar.gz created