Re: Issue with intprops-internal.h / GCC 8.3

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Paul,

Paul Smith wrote:
> >     ... in practice, it's not
> >     only developers who build from git repositories. Namely, many people
> >     whose habits have been shaped by GitHub will look for the git
> >     repository before looking for a release tarball.
> 
> Well, they are in for some hardship.
> 
> Building GNU Make from Git requires a significant number of tools to be
> installed, including automake, autoconf, gettext, texinfo, gnulib, perl
> 5 (if tests are run), and probably some other things I've forgotten.

Yep, many GNU (and non-GNU) packages are in the same situation:
Special and non-so-special tools are needed in order to build from
the git repository.

> I do not ever check in any generated files, at all (except, I guess,
> the gnulib bootstrap script which is generated by gnulib)

That's the common way of doing, since otherwise working with git branches
becomes a major hassle.

One file, though, should be added under version control: doc/fdl.texi.
See https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=modules/fdl .
Rationale: So that people who check out the git repository _without_
building it still know about the license of doc/*.texi. [0]

> What I'd really prefer to do is provide a "nightly source tarball"
> somewhere which contains the latest Git code, already configured, for
> those who want to try it.  But I don't have a simple way to do that
> with the current GNU infrastructure AFAIK.  It seems like there's
> little appetite for deleting content from alpha.gnu.org, or creating
> ephemeral content there.

Yes, the current GNU infrastructure does not provide this ability.
But I have such a "weekly source tarball" infrastructure in place for
some GNU packages [1][2][3] on gitlab.com. Other GNU packages do it
on sourceware.org [4]. If you want me to set up (and maintain) such a
thing for GNU make on gitlab, I can do that. If you want it on
sourceware.org, you can contact mjw [5].

Bruno

[0] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/License-Texinfo-sources.html
[1] https://gitlab.com/gnu-grep/ci-distcheck
[2] https://gitlab.com/gnu-m4/ci-distcheck
[3] https://gitlab.com/gnu-gettext/ci-distcheck
[4] https://snapshots.sourceware.org/gnupoke/
[5] https://gnu.wildebeest.org/blog/mjw/