Re: reproducing release tarball for 5.0.7

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9 October 2014 22:52, Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2014 20:16:29 +0000
> Phil Pennock <zsh-workers+phil.pennock@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Given a clean repository checkout, what is needed to be able to create
>> the release tarballs for verification please?
>
> To get all the documentation files you'll need to have got as far as
> "make" as well as "make everything" in the Doc directory for the
> targz-doc bundle.
>
> pws

I had to copy texinfo.tex in from the automake-1.13 directory manually
for the make everything in Doc/ to complete. After that I ran into
this;

% make targz-doc
Processing directory ./Config...
Processing directory ./Etc...
mkdir -m 755 -p -- [...]/zsh-5.0.7/./Etc
./Util/mkdisttree.sh: can't find file ./Etc/FAQ*.html
make: *** [zsh-5.0.7-doc.tar.gz] Error 1
Makefile:401: recipe for target 'zsh-5.0.7-doc.tar.gz' failed

So I tried
% cd Etc
% make
cd . && yodl2txt FAQ.yo && mv -f FAQ.txt FAQ
FAQ.yo:1: Can't read `txt'
/usr/bin/yodl indicates failure!
make: *** [FAQ] Error 1
Makefile:191: recipe for target 'FAQ' failed

Which is a confusing error message.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson