make dist (was: Hydra job gnu:hurd-master:xbootstrap on x86_64-linux, build 2364229: Failed)

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hi!

On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:11:24 +0200, I wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:28:07 +0200, I wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 22:45:07 +0200, Hydra Build Daemon 
> > <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> wrote:
> > > checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> > > checking host system type... i586-pc-gnu
> > > configure: WARNING: unsupported CPU type i586
> 
> I'm now seeing this in <http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2368322/log> as
> well, for i686.
> 
> > That's a strange warning, and I can't reproduce it.  Could you please
> > check what's going on?  asm_syntax=i386 should be set, and
> > [hurd]/libthreads/i386/cthreads.h surely does exist.
> 
> Well, it should.  As the above log is showing, that file is not being
> extracted.  Thus, either the tar that is doing the extraction is
> confused, or the process that created hurd-20120404.tar.gz.

I assume you have created that using »make dist«?  This one fails to
include said files, and a lot of others.

Please tell, what is the benefit of using (and for us, maintaining) »make
dist« compared to just using a Git checkout, or »git archive« if you
prefer?  If it's just to implement
<http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Standard-Targets.html> then
I would in fact suggest to switch to a simple »git archive« invocation
instead of maintaining all these lists of files, cp/ln, tar, etc.


Grüße,
 Thomas

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