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    <link type="guide" xref="index#anjuta-build" group="sixth"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="autotools-build-plugin"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="autotools-build-preferences-dialog"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.0" version="0.1" date="2011-03-27" status="incomplete"/>
    <desc>
      Create a distribution package.
    </desc>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Sébastien Granjoux</name>
      <email>seb.sfo@free.fr</email>
    </credit>
  </info>

  <title>Create a distribution package</title>

  <p>The standard way to distribute a autotools project is as a compressed
  tar archive containing all source files. The user will have to decompress it, then
  compile and install it on his system using the command sequence
  <cmd>configure</cmd>, <cmd>make</cmd> and <cmd>make install</cmd>.
  </p>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>From the <gui>main menu</gui>, select <guiseq><gui>Build</gui>
      <gui>Build Tarball</gui></guiseq> to create a source distribution package.
      </p>
    </item>
  </steps>

</page>
