Added source-dist make target

source-dist is a make target for creating a standalone tarball that can
be compilled on a system with the requisit external dependencies without
internet access to download the internal dependencies.

.gitignore

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 /usr
 /Make.user
 /julia-*
+/source-dist.tmp
+/source-dist.tmp1
 
 *.exe
 *.dll

DISTRIBUTING.md

@@ -21,17 +21,20 @@ Versioning and Git
 The Makefile uses both the `VERSION` file and commit hashes and tags from the
 git repository to generate the `base/version_git.jl` with information we use to
 fill the splash screen and the `versioninfo()` output. If you for some reason
-don't want to have the git repository availible when building you should
+don't want to have the git repository available when building you should
 pregenerate the `base/version_git.jl` file with:
 
  make -C base version_git.jl.phony
 
-For some dependencies we use patched versions that will be fetched via
-`git submodules`. Those might be prefetched by:
+Juila has lots of build dependencies where we use patched versions that has not
+yet been included by the popular package managers. These dependencies will usually
+be automatically downloaded when you build, but if you want to be able to build
+Julia on a computer without internet access you should create a source-dist archive
+with the special make targed
 
-  git submodule update --init
+ make source-dist
 
-See example for how this is done for building nigtlies at [the debian build servers](https://github.com/staticfloat/julia-nightly-packaging/blob/master/build_ubuntu.sh)
+that creates a julia-version-commit.tar.gz archive with all required dependencies.
 
 When compiling a tagged release in the git repository, we don't display the
 branch/commit hash info in the splash screen. You can use this line to show

Makefile

@@ -32,6 +32,13 @@ endif
 $(foreach dir,$(DIRS),$(eval $(call dir_target,$(dir))))
 $(foreach link,base test doc examples,$(eval $(call symlink_target,$(link),$(BUILD)/share/julia)))
 
+git-submodules:
+ifneq ($(NO_GIT), 1)
+ @-git submodule update --init
+else
+ $(warn "Submodules could not be updated because git is unavailible")
+endif
+
 debug release: | $(DIRS) $(BUILD)/share/julia/base $(BUILD)/share/julia/test $(BUILD)/share/julia/doc $(BUILD)/share/julia/examples $(BUILD)/etc/julia/juliarc.jl
  @$(MAKE) $(QUIET_MAKE) julia-$@
  @export JL_PRIVATE_LIBDIR=$(JL_PRIVATE_LIBDIR) && \
@@ -43,13 +50,7 @@ julia-debug-symlink:
 julia-release-symlink:
  @ln -sf $(BUILD)/bin/julia-$(DEFAULT_REPL) julia
 
-julia-debug julia-release:
-ifneq ($(NO_GIT), 1)
- @-git submodule init --quiet
- @-git submodule update
-else
- $(warn "Submodules could not be updated because git is unavailible")
-endif
+julia-debug julia-release: git-submodules
  @$(MAKE) $(QUIET_MAKE) -C deps
  @$(MAKE) $(QUIET_MAKE) -C src lib$@
  @$(MAKE) $(QUIET_MAKE) -C base
@@ -264,6 +265,27 @@ else
 endif
  rm -fr julia-$(JULIA_COMMIT)
 
+
+source-dist: git-submodules
+ # Save git information
+ -@$(MAKE) -C base version_git.jl.phony
+ # Get all the dependencies downloaded
+ @$(MAKE) -C deps getall
+
+ # Create file source-dist.tmp to hold all the filenames that goes into the tarball
+ echo "base/version_git.jl" > source-dist.tmp
+ git ls-files >> source-dist.tmp
+ ls deps/*.tar.gz deps/*.tar.bz2 deps/*.tgz deps/random/*.tar.gz >> source-dist.tmp
+ git submodule --quiet foreach 'git ls-files | sed "s&^&$$path/&"' >> source-dist.tmp
+
+ # Remove unwanted files
+ sed '/\.git/d' source-dist.tmp > source-dist.tmp1
+ sed '/\.travis/d' source-dist.tmp1 > source-dist.tmp
+
+ # Create tarball
+ tar -cz -T source-dist.tmp --no-recursion -f julia-$(JULIA_VERSION)_$(JULIA_COMMIT).tar.gz
+ rm -f source-dist.tmp source-dist.tmp1
+
 clean: | $(CLEAN_TARGETS)
  @$(MAKE) -C base clean
  @$(MAKE) -C src clean
@@ -275,6 +297,7 @@ clean: | $(CLEAN_TARGETS)
  @rm -f julia
  @rm -f *~ *# *.tar.gz
  @rm -fr $(BUILD)/$(JL_PRIVATE_LIBDIR)
+ @rm -f source-dist.tmp source-dist.tmp1
 # Temporarily add this line to the Makefile to remove extras
  @rm -fr $(BUILD)/share/julia/extras
 
@@ -294,7 +317,7 @@ distclean: cleanall
 .PHONY: default debug release julia-debug julia-release \
  test testall testall1 test-* clean distclean cleanall \
  run-julia run-julia-debug run-julia-release run \
- install dist
+ install dist source-dist git-submodules
 
 ifeq ($(VERBOSE),1)
 .SILENT: