Re: [bug-gettext] [PATCH] Generate autopoint archive when bootstrapping

[Daiki Ueno]

Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas <address@hidden> writes:

> Actually It fails for git clones, so the full history should be already
> there. I think that an automated script to create it would be great,
> because it will also automate new releases. As soon as the new tag is
> added, the script would be able to find it and generate the right
> contents and only would need tuning when a file is added or removed.

Well, it is preferred if it is feasible, for sure.  However, it is not
easy to reproduce the archive contents only from the git contents.

What the current archive creation script
(gettext-tools/misc/add-to-archive) does is to build and install the
distribution tarball and copy files from the installation directory.

So:

* some files are from maintainer's autotools (config.rpath,
  mkinstalldirs, etc.) installation
* it is not known which files to be included in archive.dir.tar, until
  running "make install"

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno