joyent/node — pull request #3824 by TooTallNate (2012-08-04 20:15:10+00:00)
Title: Makefile helpers for precompiled binary tarballs

This is for #3741.

Now we can do `make binary` in the repo and it'll generate a precompiled tarball package for the current platform, in the form of `node-v$(VERSION)-$(PLATFORM)-$(ARCH).tar.gz`, which ends up something like: `node-v0.8.6-linux-x86_64.tar.gz`.

My make-fu is weak so there's definitely things that can be improved.

@bnoordhuis You should definitely check out the first few commits as they fix bugs in the new python installer script.