Re: ./make-dist for unicode branch

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
> CC: eliz@gnu.org, EmfoxZhou@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:32:37 +0900
> 
> In article <E1F3NLx-0000H7-RS@fencepost.gnu.org>, "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> I think it is trivial.  Just check whether simple.elc exists.
> >     It doesn't assure that the bootstrap was really successful.
> 
> > Does that really matter here?
> 
> > The point is to detect the case where no bootstrap was done.  
> > It would be nice to detect the case of a failed bootstrap
> > also, but that is a different matter.  It is ok to detect
> > just the former.
> 
> I thought that the point was to prevent making an incomplete
> tarball.  And, for that, it is necessary to detect the case
> where bootstrap failed.  The merit of just checking if
> bootstrap was done or not regardless of the result is small,
> isn't it?

How about if we check that all the generated source files that are not
in the repository were regenerated?  (Excluding the *.elc, *.o, and
other compiled files, of course.)  There shouldn't be too many, I
think.