From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Possibility of a ${srcdir}/info/dir target race? Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 01:49:46 -0400 Message-ID: References: <877fzrkje1.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <87r3xzirqs.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <544878F7.6020708@cs.ucla.edu> <69oat39wrf.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414043413 1158 80.91.229.3 (23 Oct 2014 05:50:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 05:50:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Rob Browning , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 23 07:50:01 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XhBHc-0008HW-Pk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2014 07:50:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34785 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XhBHc-0002bg-Dg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2014 01:50:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50863) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XhBHQ-0002bb-Kq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2014 01:49:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XhBHP-0002Yd-UC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2014 01:49:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55850) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XhBHP-0002YZ-Ri for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2014 01:49:47 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XhBHP-0001Eg-3x; Thu, 23 Oct 2014 01:49:47 -0400 X-Spook: militia Honduras lynch Waco, Texas Saudi Arabia Forte X-Ran: jiW6;0}@TWF;o'^t{UZc>vXJZ&*evo1"D_Cs6|$zI]AL1n!MHCPL#UocQke X-Hue: blue X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <69oat39wrf.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu, 23 Oct 2014 01:32:20 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:175715 Archived-At: Glenn Morris wrote: > Paul Eggert wrote: > >> ... or the directory './info' doesn't exist, and that indeed is a race. > > Why would info/, which is included in release tarfiles and not deleted > by any rule AFAICS, go missing? Oh, bootstrap-clean deletes it. No idea why that would be run when building from a tarfile. (Does the Debian build process really need to diverge from the normal tarfile build process so much?)