>> djtar -n emacs-25.chg emacs-25.tgz
>> ...
>> It is a bit more complex and error-prone for MS-DOS, yes. But
>> it has the advantage of compartmentalizing the MS-DOS restrictions
>> into the MS-DOS build instructions
> Sorry, but these complications are unacceptable for me. We use
> something like that in GDB, and the result is extremely fragile and
> error-prone, I find problems with missing renames every time I build
> GDB. I'm not going to make the same kind or mistake again in Emacs.
Here's a compromise:
- let's do the renames that need to be done (they're really not
problematic, AFAICT).
- let's try and get this "djtar -n emacs-25.chg emacs-25.tgz" to work
reliably, e.g. by auto-building the emacs-25.chg file as part of
make-dist, so there's no way for that file to be "missing renames".
Stefan
