[geos-devel] RFC7: Discontinue use of autotools

[Paul Ramsey]

> On Jan 8, 2021, at 2:10 PM, Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:
> 
> I've just tried "make distcheck" from a build/ subdir.
> It created a geos-3.10.0dev.tar.bz2 file of 150MB.
> 
> The "make dist" command under autotools generates a
> geos-3.10.0dev.tar.gz of less than 6MB.
> 
The source directory you are making dist against is probably full of old autotools build output, since I can build dist against my pristine source directory and get a geos-3.10.0dev.tar.bz2 of 7161398 bytes.