The announce-gen script produced this output for me: Here are the compressed sources: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.23.tar.gz (0 gettext-0.23.tar.gz) https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.23.tar.lz (0 gettext-0.23.tar.lz) https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.23.tar.xz (0 gettext-0.23.tar.xz)
The cause it that it does not support symlinks. With the patch below, it does and produces the expected output: Here are the compressed sources: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.23.tar.gz (28MB) https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.23.tar.lz (8.7MB) https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.23.tar.xz (11MB) 2024-12-01 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> announce-gen: Fix bug when accessing symlinks. * build-aux/announce-gen (sizes): Pass the option -L to 'du'. diff --git a/build-aux/announce-gen b/build-aux/announce-gen index 4b7ba07165..be17541c89 100755 --- a/build-aux/announce-gen +++ b/build-aux/announce-gen @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ sub sizes (@) my %res; foreach my $f (@file) { - my $cmd = "du -h $f"; + my $cmd = "du -h -L $f"; my $t = `$cmd`; # FIXME-someday: give a better diagnostic, a la $PROCESS_STATUS $@
