On Tue, 4 Oct 2022 12:03:12 -0700
Andrew Pinski via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> > Building a full distribution of this tree isn't done
> > via 'make dist'. Check out the etc/ subdirectory
...
> You just tar up the source.
> You could use maintainer-scripts/gcc_release to make a snapshot but in
> the end it just does `tar xcfj file.tar.bz2 gcc` .
If I may, the error message would be improved by making it shorter:
> Building a full distribution of this tree isn't done
> via 'make dist'.
since that at least would be accurate! But why not just make it work
again? Change the dist target in Makefile.in:
dist:
tar xcfj file.tar.bz2 gcc
or
dist:
$(srcdir)/maintainer-scripts/gcc_release $(RELEASE_OPTS)
where RELEASE_OPTS has some simple default. The user wishing to know
more can inspect the script to determine what options to use.
I spent several hours looking for information on how to do this. I
wasn't counting on a decade of misdirection. It's not mentioned
anywhere that I could find in the source tree or the wiki. I missed
maintainer-scripts among the 75 files because it wasn't in upper case,
where I expect to find developer information. If the process of
generating nightly tarballs is documented, I missed that, too.
I'm happy to open a PR or submit a patch.
--jkl
