Re: ./make-dist for unicode branch

[Richard M. Stallman]

    because the files lisp/international/charprop.el and
    lisp/international/uni-*.el are generated by "make bootstrap" only if
    there's the `admin' subdirectory.  (I asked why it looks for that
    directory, but didn't see any answers.)

That seems really ugly.  I think we should track down the reason for
that conditional, and either document it or remove it (and solve whatever
problem in some other way).

Can you do that?

    Handa-san tried to fix this by checking the missing files into CVS,
    but Miles objected, saying that generated files should not be there.

I agree these files should not be in CVS.

    So I don't think these files should be in CVS, and I don't think
    there's any problem in make-dist.  Rather, before creating a snapshot,
    people should say "make bootstrap" in their sandbox.

If this is so, make-dist should check that a bootstrap has been done,
and fail with a clear error message otherwise.