Re: ./make-dist for unicode branch

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:30:33 +0900
> Cc: EmfoxZhou@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> In article <buor7735wc7.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>, Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com> writes:
> 
> > Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:
> >> The files lisp/international/charprop.el and
> >> lisp/international/uni-*.el are generated by "make bootstrap" if there
> >> exists "admin" subdir.  But, as they don't exist in CVS, your tarball
> >> doesn't contain them (nor 'admin' subdir).
> >> 
> >> I vaguely remember that I have committed all those files
> >> once.  I don't know why they don't exist in CVS now.
> 
> > If they're automatically generated, they shouldn't be in CVS...
> 
> I basically agree with that.  But, then, how can we make
> them included in a tarball generated by Emfox's way?

What is the reason that those files are generated only if there's the
admin/ directory?

> Shuold we signal an error in make-dist when the directory is
> not yet readly for creating a tar ball?  But it's not
> trivial to check if the directory is ready or not.

I think a snapshot should be exactly like a release tarball, i.e. it
should include all the *.elc files etc.  So one needs to build Emacs
before creating a snapshot.

In other words, a snapshot is NOT simply a checked-out CVS tree, it's
a tarball like any release, except that it was made from a
non-released code base.