On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 12:54 AM James K. Lowden
wrote:
>
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2022 12:03:12 -0700
> Andrew Pinski via Gcc wrote:
>
> > > Building a full distribution of this tree isn't done
> > > via 'make dist'. Check out the etc/ subdirectory
> ...
> > 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` .
>
> If I may, the error message would be improved by making it shorter:
>
> > Building a full distribution of this tree isn't done
> > via 'make dist'.
>
> since that at least would be accurate! But why not just make it work
> again? Change the dist target in Makefile.in:
Note that etc/ is present in the src tree (from binutils/gdb), the complication
here is that the toplevel Makefile is shared between gcc and binutils/gdb
so we can't simply invoke something from maintainer-scripts which isn't
present on the binutils/gdb side ...
> dist:
> tar xcfj file.tar.bz2 gcc
> or
> dist:
> $(srcdir)/maintainer-scripts/gcc_release $(RELEASE_OPTS)
>
> where RELEASE_OPTS has some simple default. The user wishing to know
> more can inspect the script to determine what options to use.
>
> I spent several hours looking for information on how to do this. I
> wasn't counting on a decade of misdirection. It's not mentioned
> anywhere that I could find in the source tree or the wiki. I missed
> maintainer-scripts among the 75 files because it wasn't in upper case,
> where I expect to find developer information. If the process of
> generating nightly tarballs is documented, I missed that, too.
There is https://gcc.gnu.org/releasing.html and assorted pages where
such stuff is documented. There's probably something similar on
the binutils/gdb side.
I guess the best thing we can do is improve the wording of the
'make dist' diagnostic plus eventually have parts of it documented
in sourcebuild.texi
Richard.
> I'm happy to open a PR or submit a patch.
>
> --jkl
>