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Re: Files from gnulib


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Files from gnulib
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:03:16 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> 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



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