build: Add a simple dist scriptwip/meson-only

This allows us to create a tarball from the latest tag.

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/build-aux/make_release.sh b/build-aux/make_release.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..864adc9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build-aux/make_release.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -x
+
+test -n "$srcdir" || srcdir=$1
+test -n "$srcdir" || srcdir=.
+
+cd "$srcdir"
+
+PROJECT=pango
+VERSION=$(git describe --abbrev=0)
+NAME="${PROJECT}-${VERSION}"
+
+rm -f "${NAME}.tar"
+
+echo "Creating git tree archive…"
+git archive --prefix="${NAME}/" --format=tar HEAD > ${NAME}.tar
+
+rm -f "${NAME}.tar.xz"
+
+echo "Compressing archive…"
+xz -f "${NAME}.tar"
+
+set +x