Change tarball making procedure
Since recently, OpenSSL tarballs are produced with 'make tar' rather than 'make dist', as the latter has turned out to be more troublesome than useful. The next step to look at is why we would need to configure at all to produce a Makefile just to produce a tarball. After all, the tarball should now only contain source files that are present even without configuring. Furthermore, the current method for producing tarballs is a bit complex, and can be greatly simplified with the right tools. Since we have everything versioned with git, we might as well use the tool that comes with it. Added: util/mktar.sh, a simple script to produce OpenSSL tarballs. It takes the options --name to modify the prefix of the distribution, and --tarfile tp modify the tarball file name specifically. This also adds a few entries in .gitattributes to specify files that should never end up in a distribution tarball. Reviewed-by:Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7692) (cherry picked from commit 8c209eee)
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