Re: bootstrap.conf not distributed

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> When doing a "make dist" in the coreutils CVS, bootstrap is distributed,
> but bootstrap.conf is not. IMO that doesn't make sense, since the entire
> parametrization comes from bootstrap.conf. How about adding bootstrap.conf
> to EXTRA_DIST?

Good catch.
I've just done that.
Thanks.

> Also there are a number of other files of which I cannot judge whether
> they would be useful to distribute.
>
> $ make dist; tar xvfz coreutils-6.4-cvs.tar.gz
> $ make distclean
> $ LC_ALL=C diff -r -c3 -q coreutils-6.4-cvs . \
>   | grep -v CVS | grep -v cvsignore | sed -e 's,^Only in ,,' -e 's,: ,/,'
> ...
> ./README-package-renamed-to-coreutils
> ./README-valgrind
> ./bootstrap.conf
> ./build-aux/gnupload                [this one is not in CVS, comes from 
> gnulib]
> ./src/du-tests
> ./tests/general

I've removed this one.
> ./tests/ls/Test.pm

> ./tests/mkdir/concurrent-1
> ./tests/mkdir/writable-under-readonly
> ./tests/mv/i-3
> ./tests/rm/empty-name
> ./tests/rm/unreadable
> ./tests/sort/main
> ./tests/sort-time
> ./tests/tail-2/fflush
> ./tests/tail-2/infloop-1
> ./tests/tr/failures

I'm leaving the rest, for reference.
Most are tests of questionable portability, or that are incomplete.