bug#15503: 24.3.50; [ELPA] admin/update-archive.sh fails to build the html files

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 02.10.2013 04:57, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Am I using this right?
> > ~/vc/elpa$ admin/update-archive.sh
>
> Depends: what are you trying to do, and what have you done before
> running the above command?

Trying to test the changes to the html building code in 
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13291#38

I've tried creating the missing dirs, but not the symbolic links.

> The above command is designed to run on elpa.gnu.org's setup.
> You can run iutft locally for testing purposes, but you'll need to set
> things up accordingly.
> Basically, something like:
>
>     git clone .../elpa
>     mkdir build
>     mkdir staging
>     cd build
>     ln -s ../elpa/GNUmakefile ../elpa/admin ./
>     cd build
>     admin/update-archive.sh

That works, thanks.

When I run it this way, though, it keeps popping these kind of prompts:

...
+ cd ../staging/packages
+ emacs --batch -l ../../build/admin/archive-contents.el --eval 
(batch-html-make-index)
Source file `/home/gutov/emacs-bzr/trunk/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-macs.el' 
newer than byte-compiled file
Unknown file "README"
Wrote /home/gutov/vc/staging/packages/ack-readme.txt
Select coding system (default raw-text):
Selected encoding raw-text disagrees with utf-8 specified by file 
contents.  Really save (else edit coding cookies and try again)? (yes or 
no) yes
Wrote /home/gutov/vc/staging/packages/ack.html
Wrote /home/gutov/vc/staging/packages/adaptive-wrap-readme.txt
Select coding system (default raw-text): utf-8
Wrote /home/gutov/vc/staging/packages/adaptive-wrap.html
Wrote /home/gutov/vc/staging/packages/adjust-parens-readme.txt
Select coding system (default raw-text):
Selected encoding raw-text disagrees with utf-8 specified by file 
contents.  Really save (else edit coding cookies and try again)? (yes or 
no) no
Save aborted

Is that normal?