Mosè Giordano <m...@gnu.org> writes: > 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.
One can surround the read command with stty -echo read ... stty echo in order to switch off echoing. Of course, if things crash just there, people will get annoyed at the state of the terminal... -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list auctex-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel
