Re: Top level release system changes

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>]

Nathanael Nerode <neroden@doctormoo.dyndns.org> writes:

> GDB has already started using this new file for its snapshot releases.
> I believe binutils also has an automated snapshot script.  If this script
> contains lines like 'make -f Makefile.in binutils.tar.bz2', it would be
> wonderful if they could be changed to 'make -f src-release
> binutils.tar.bz2' (or, if you want to be extra conservative, to try
> both).  Once all packages have been changed in this manner, I
> can remove the code from Makefile.in (at the moment it is in both places)
> and continue my top level autoconfiscation work.
> 
> I'd appreciate a notice that this has been done, or that there is some
> remaining problem which needs to be fixed before it can be done.

There seems to be a remaining problem.  I get this when running the
snapshot script:

...
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating po/Makefile.in
creating gconfig.h
Configuring etc...
loading cache ../config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
make[3]: Entering directory `/sourceware/snapshot-tmp/binutils-snapshot/asnap021001.1440/src'
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `configure-target'.  Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/sourceware/snapshot-tmp/binutils-snapshot/asnap021001.1440/src'
make[2]: *** [do-proto-toplev] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/sourceware/snapshot-tmp/binutils-snapshot/asnap021001.1440/src'
make[1]: *** [taz] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/sourceware/snapshot-tmp/binutils-snapshot/asnap021001.1440/src'
make: *** [binutils.tar.bz2] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/sourceware/snapshot-tmp/binutils-snapshot/asnap021001.1440/src'

The command being executed is this:

make -w -f src-release binutils.tar.bz2 -s </dev/null

The complete script can be found in ~ian/bin/binutils-cvs-snapshot on
sourceware.org.

Ian