Signed-off-by: Brendan Le Foll <brendan.le.foll@intel.com>
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mkdir covbuild/ && cd covbuild
cmake -DBUILDDOC=OFF -DBUILDSWIG=OFF ..
-cmake -DBUILDDOC=OFF -DBUILDSWIG=OFF ..
cov-build --dir cov-int make
-tar caf mraa.tar..bz2 cov-int
+tar caf mraa.tar.bz2 cov-int
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Recreating tarball
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-From a checkout of mraa you can do the following to 'generate' this tarball
+From a checkout of mraa you can do the following to 'generate' this tarball.
+It's important to not leave a .git directory as npm will then consider the
+tarball contains a full git tree. Also you need a top level dir which matches
+the npm pkg name so we create one with a symlink and add the 'h' flag to tar to
+follow simlinks.
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mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DBUILDSWIGNODE=ON ..
make npmpkg
-cd ../
-tar czv --exclude='build/*' --exclude='.git/*' -f /tmp/mraa.tar.gz .
+ln -s ../ mraa
+tar hczv --exclude='build*' --exclude='.gitignore' --exclude='.git' --exclude='build*/*' --exclude='.git/*' -f mraa.tar.gz mraa
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