From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18400 invoked by alias); 14 Jun 2012 14:31:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 18371 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Jun 2012 14:31:40 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from relay1.mentorg.com (HELO relay1.mentorg.com) (192.94.38.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:31:27 +0000 Received: from svr-orw-exc-10.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.58]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1SfB51-0001zp-Il from Carlos_ODonell@mentor.com ; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:31:23 -0700 Received: from SVR-ORW-FEM-02.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.96.206]) by SVR-ORW-EXC-10.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:30:47 -0700 Received: from [172.30.1.133] (147.34.91.1) by svr-orw-fem-02.mgc.mentorg.com (147.34.96.168) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.289.1; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:31:22 -0700 Message-ID: <4FD9F5B9.8050900@mentor.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:31:00 -0000 From: Carlos O'Donell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Jaeger CC: , Mike Frysinger , Subject: Re: Request for help: Fix building tarballs for ports add-on. References: <4FD92B99.3050605@mentor.com> <201206132115.15642.vapier@gentoo.org> <1889834.8sqT8COGaf@byrd> In-Reply-To: <1889834.8sqT8COGaf@byrd> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact libc-ports-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-ports-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-06/txt/msg00037.txt.bz2 On 6/14/2012 3:16 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 21:15:13 Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Wednesday 13 June 2012 20:08:57 Carlos O'Donell wrote: >>> As we approach the 2.16 release I am reminded that building >>> tarballs for the ports add-on is broken. >>> >>> For the 2.15 release I had to build the tarballs manually. >>> >>> I'd like this to be automated like it is for glibc core >>> where we get a .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, and .tar.xz. >>> >>> Any takers? >> >> isn't it just: >> git archive --prefix=glibc-ports-2.16/ glibc-2.16 | xz \ >> >> > glibc-ports-2.16.tar.xz > > Yeah - there's a Makefile rule in libc: > %.tar: FORCE > git archive --prefix=$*/ $* > $@.new > mv -f $@.new $@ > > I guess, this just needs to be done for ports as well in the proper way > - unless Carlos wants to call the above manually... Exactly. I'd like to see this added to the libc-ports makefile, and tested by someone. That would help the upcoming release and all the point releases based on 2.16. It's just one less thing to do manually :-) Cheers, Carlos. -- Carlos O'Donell Mentor Graphics / CodeSourcery carlos_odonell@mentor.com carlos@codesourcery.com +1 (613) 963 1026