Re: make dist does not include man.tar.gz and postgres.tar.gz

Hi,

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 17:03 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I think you need "make distprep" first.

Still, we have problems here. I first created man.tar.gz,
postgres.tar.gz and ran gmake INSTALL HISTORY under doc/src/sgml and
moved them to top level directory. However, I am getting the following
error regardless I ran distprep or not:

$ make VERSION=8.4devel dist
rm -rf postgresql-8.4devel* =install=
for x in `cd . && find . -name CVS -prune -o -print`; do \
file=`expr X$x : 'X\./\(.*\)'`; \
if test -d "./$file" ; then \
mkdir "postgresql-8.4devel/$file" && chmod 777
"postgresql-8.4devel/$file"; \
else \
ln "./$file" "postgresql-8.4devel/$file" >/dev/null 2>&1 \
|| cp "./$file" "postgresql-8.4devel/$file"; \
fi || exit; \
done
cp: cannot stat `./doc/src/sgml/CREATE': No such file or directory
make: *** [distdir] Error 1

The problem is (as Alvaro stated me on Jabber), the space between CREATE
and AGGREGATE (there are a bunch of them actually). Checked GNUMakefile
and saw this in distdir target:

cp "$(top_srcdir)/$$file" "$(distdir)/$$file";

I thought quotes would help us here, but apparently it does not.

However, when I run ./configure and make dist, and then extract the
tarball, generate man.tar.gz with postgres.tar.gz, add these to the
previous tarball and rewrap it, it works. But I "want to" assume that it
is not the way that PostgreSQL tarballs are created.

> I've never seen Marc's actual build script, however.

I have zero idea why these scripts are not included in CVS...

Regards,
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Devrim GÜNDÜZ, RHCE
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