From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9750: 24.0.90; Windows binary distribution build fails with 24.0.90 Pretest Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:34:20 +0800 Message-ID: <87obxegyhf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86aa94p88p.fsf@googlemail.com> <87sjmqgz7i.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318948520 22337 80.91.229.12 (18 Oct 2011 14:35:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:35:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Christoph Scholtes , 9750@debbugs.gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 18 16:35:15 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RGAl9-000524-EE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:35:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56234 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RGAl8-0004lp-6H for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:35:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45490) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RGAl4-0004le-QR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RGAkz-0002PG-1w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:35:10 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:36496) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RGAky-0002P4-V9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:35:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RGAlt-00074Q-Np for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:36:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Jason Rumney Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:36:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9750 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 9750-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9750.131894854827157 (code B ref 9750); Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:36:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9750) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Oct 2011 14:35:48 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RGAlf-00073y-Ro for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:35:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f50.google.com ([209.85.210.50]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RGAld-00073j-I6 for 9750@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:35:46 -0400 Original-Received: by pzk34 with SMTP id 34so1768235pzk.9 for <9750@debbugs.gnu.org>; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:34:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=SkS4LK4Nvx3/q+7hwMIlt7MtrunBA4mY8pKb1KVUwGc=; b=Ag4RJ2fiKUsfne2ULJqt8EEShmc4e00XY7kt5Exw9A5D+2sqQalpVdFOo5kM4701MD NjDrHibcHCQmYsAoQjmhUKVMH9hcHBMhNbDxL8+RruMBpK1oHdyYlYaXwgcTAPQT6sgr zA5MdlKp9Xo2NPCWrLKEV2IokUN+cL0ayiDhw= Original-Received: by 10.68.16.7 with SMTP id b7mr5110415pbd.131.1318948468715; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:34:28 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from home.jasonrumney.net ([180.75.148.1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ki1sm7971652pbb.3.2011.10.18.07.34.24 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:34:27 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by home.jasonrumney.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CA365285; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:34:20 +0800 (MYT) In-Reply-To: <87sjmqgz7i.fsf@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:18:41 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:36:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:52792 Archived-At: Jason Rumney writes: > Glenn Morris writes: > >>> README.W32 needs to be included in the >>> tarball for `mingw32-make dist' to work. >> >> But you're saying that you want to start from a source tarfile and make >> a binary tarfile? I don't know how to reconcile these two. > > It used to be necessary to have a checkout of the admin directory to > build Windows binaries, as the scripts that built the tarballs/zip files > were also located in the admin directory. Now that the scripts have been > converted to makefile rules, the README.W32 file is the only required > file left there, so it might make more sense to move it to the nt > subdirectory now. It seems this change was made over a year ago, but a few months later make-dist was changed to explicitly exclude this file. The question mark on the end of the comment seems to indicate that the author of the change wasn't sure at the time if it was the right thing to do.