From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: make-dist failure on master Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 11:55:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87v9xf6cdm.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87muir66bu.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87o935izmx.fsf@russet.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="213331"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 13 19:36:00 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hbTdo-000tIo-K0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2019 19:36:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42524 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hbTdg-00006F-7i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2019 13:35:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39637) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hbS4R-0000lX-3x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2019 11:55:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34681) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hbS4Q-0003fD-RA; Thu, 13 Jun 2019 11:55:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hbS4G-0005tz-75; Thu, 13 Jun 2019 11:55:15 -0400 X-Spook: TELINT Exon Shell JFK 9/11 asset Telecommunications X-Ran: <#ab~P3Z[ZA;zX9|cmpTAib/.0vYg5 (Phillip Lord's message of "Mon, 10 Jun 2019 10:00:06 +0100") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:237524 Archived-At: Phillip Lord wrote: >> Sounds like a bug. (Though my, presumably outdated or wrong, >> recollection was that make-dist required an in-tree build.) > > Effectively it does, unless you use the right options. Whether that was > a design decision or not, I don't know. Actually, maybe it was the ChangeLog needing an in-tree build that I was thinking of. IMO --snapshot should do whatever is appropriate to make an Emacs tarfile for use on ftp.gnu.org. I think that includes sanity-checking and adding a ChangeLog. I don't have an opinion on whether make-dist needs to support out-of-tree builds.