spark404/opentsdb — comment on commit 9f026ed37011291ebd7d05d41247bb62651f52d3
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By tsuna:

This is unnecessary, there is already a target called `make dist` that does this, as well as `make distcheck` that checks a lot of things before creating the tarball. These are standard targets for Autotoolized packages, very common in Linux packages.