I want to make a release soon. The preceding release (gzip-1.6) was 2.5 years ago.
Here's a small admin change I've just pushed. I suspect I'm the only one who noticed, because it is triggered only via "make distcheck" when also using automake built from automake.git's master branch.
From 9860eb784749f8588346850e693d7460e5be1601 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@fb.com> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 19:48:38 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] maint: dist-check.mk: remove .deps dirs before comparing "make distcheck" with automake-from-trunk would fail like this: ... Only in /gz/tests/torture/gzip/test/gzip-1.6.42-9d47.old: .deps Only in /gz/tests/torture/gzip/test/gzip-1.6.42-9d47.old/lib: .deps Only in /gz/tests/torture/gzip/test/gzip-1.6.42-9d47.old/lib/glthread: .deps * dist-check.mk (my-distcheck): Remove all .deps directories before comparing the two hierarchies. --- dist-check.mk | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/dist-check.mk b/dist-check.mk index 6287dfe..f23339e 100644 --- a/dist-check.mk +++ b/dist-check.mk @@ -188,6 +188,7 @@ my-distcheck: $(DIST_ARCHIVES) $(local-check) ) (cd $(t) && mv $(distdir) $(distdir).old \ && $(amtar_extract_) - ) < $(preferred_tarball_) + find $(t)/$(distdir).old $(t)/$(distdir) -name .deps | xargs rmdir diff -ur $(t)/$(distdir).old $(t)/$(distdir) -rm -rf $(t) rmdir $(tmpdir)/$(PACKAGE) $(tmpdir) -- 2.6.4
