I had a feeling that's what the answer was going to be, but, well, I figured it couldn't hurt to ask.
Especially because I hadn't before noticed the maintainer-scripts subdirectory. That alone made asking worth it. Thank you very much, Bob Dubner -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Pinski <pins...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 4, 2022 15:03 To: Robert Dubner <rdub...@symas.com> Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: How do I create a GCC source code tarball? On Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 4:32 PM Robert Dubner <rdub...@symas.com> wrote: > > I have modified the source code of GCC, and I need a tarball for that > modified source. > > My code is based on the trunk branch of the repository at > git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git > > I attempted to execute "make dist", and have encountered the response > > Building a full distribution of this tree isn't done > via 'make dist'. Check out the etc/ subdirectory > > I have been unable to locate a subdirectory name "etc/". > > With that as background, my question is: > > How do I create a source code tarball for GCC? You just tar up the source. You could use maintainer-scripts/gcc_release to make a snapshot but in the end it just does `tar xcfj file.tar.bz2 gcc` . Thanks, Andrew > > Thanks very much for any help. > >
