Hi Ralf, 2014-09-02 20:00 GMT+02:00 Ralf Angeli <ang...@caeruleus.net>: > * Mosč Giordano (2014-09-02) writes: > >> for the release process we should follow the "Distributions" section >> of the GNU Maintainer guide, right? I can build and sign all >> tarballs, including XEmacs and Windows ones, but who will send the >> packages to the FTP server? For what is worth, I haven't gone through >> the process to automate FTP uploads yet. > > Up till the last release I've done the uploads for some time. So if you > don't want to register at the moment, I can do the upload without much > hassle. >
Ok, thank you. >> In the Makefile, the default shell is a generic /bin/sh, but in the >> release-sign rule there is a "read -sp" command which is, AFAIK, >> specific to "bash" and /bin/sh doesn't necessarily points to bash (in >> Debian and derivates it doesn't). The "-p" option can be replaced by >> a preceding "echo -n" message, the "-s" option doesn't have a generic >> replacement. A solution could be to set the shell to /bin/bash, >> another could be to replace the read "-p" option with the "echo" and >> drop the "-s" option. > > Hm, I haven't had trouble with the command and I've been using Debian > all along. But perhaps they changed the default shell since the last > AUCTeX release? Did the command fail in your case? Yes, the release-sign rule fails for me unless I set the shell to /bin/bash in the command line. The dash has been being the default /bin/sh for Ubuntu since 2006 and for Debian since 2011. Bye, Mosè _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list auctex-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel