Making a distribution Need to start with a fresh checkout. In particular, the jemboss/build directory otherwise contains full path names to olong to save in the standard tar format (99 characters starting with EMBOSS-6.5.0/) Then in the top level: # rsync to pick up the data and index files rsync -ac rsync://emboss.open-bio.org/EMBOSS/ . # autoreconf to create the configure file autoreconf -fi # configure with default options to create a make file ./configure # Add a line to NEWS to describe the new release 15/07/2012 Version 6.5.0 See ChangeLog # Create the distribution file make dist