Re: Use of exists() in a Makefile

[Stuart Henderson]

On 2011-10-04, David Cantrell <david.l.cantr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My suggestion was to add support to the ports system infrastructure to 
> allow people an easy way to locally package up stuff from projects that 
> do not release tarballs.

You could add something like this to your Makefile

create-tarball:
        cd ${FULLDISTDIR} && \
            svn export http://foo ${DISTNAME} && \
            tar czf ${DISTNAME}${EXTRACT_SUFX} ${DISTNAME}

FETCH_MANUALLY= "Use: make create-tarball"