Add source-dist target to Makefile for creating gitless source tarball #5264
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Ref #5181. I tested this and it seems to work on OSX. (Via
make source-dist
in one directory, then unpacking the resultant tarball to another directory and building the whole tree. Unfortunately, this took over 45 minutes, so if you decide to test this, gentle reader, please ensure that you've got something else to occupy your time before rashly typingmake
)make -C deps getall
. This gets platform-specific deps such aspatchelf
as well, so I hope that this source tarball is cross-platform.version_git.jl.phony
stuff from RFC: Simpelify packaging by splitting out collection of git version info #5095. Once this is merged, I hope that can be merged quickly as well, it directly addresses the most common Ubuntu build failure quite nicely.@ivarne @nalimilan