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authorKaren Arutyunov <karen@codesynthesis.com>2020-10-01 22:08:03 +0300
committerKaren Arutyunov <karen@codesynthesis.com>2020-10-06 15:19:27 +0300
commit235771a20da1da0c3ff495d03e6c223880cbcf20 (patch)
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parentdd4393647c51e75abeea8cd3e516ca1ed2bd23f3 (diff)
Add re-distribution phase for checked out packages
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@@ -932,6 +932,11 @@ bpkg -v update <package-name>
bpkg -v test <package-name>
\
+If a primary or test package comes from a version control-based repository,
+then its \c{dist} meta-operation is also tested as a part of the
+\c{bpkg.configure.build} step by re-distributing the source directory in the
+load distribution mode after configuration.
+
As an example, the following POSIX shell script can be used to setup the
environment for building C and C++ packages with GCC 9 on most Linux
distributions.