Re: Make dist

[Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 11:56 AM, John Darrington
<john@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 07:39:01AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>      On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 4:37 AM, John Darrington
>      <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:
>      > Thanks for the pointer.
>      >
>      > But how do I use the src-release file?  It seems to be a
>      > makefile.  But from what directory should I run it?  and do I
>      > need to pass it arguments or what?
>      >
>      > From the source directory I get:
>      >
>      > ~/binutils/src$ make -f src-release
>      > make: *** No rule to make target `list-of-support-files-for-tool-in-question', needed by `taz'.  Stop.
>      >
>      > and from the build directory I get:
>      >
>      > john@muse:/Scratch/john/binutils$ make -f ~/binutils/src/src-release
>      > make: *** No rule to make target `README', needed by `taz'.  Stop.
>      >
>      >
>      > ????
>
>      Run it in the build directory, but tell it which release you want to
>      build.  It's used for a few different tools.
>
>      make -f SRCDIR/src-release binutils.tar.bz2
>
> When I do that I get the same result as before:
>
> $ make -f /home/john/binutils/src/src-release binutils.tar.bz2
> make: *** No rule to make target `README', needed by `binutils.tar.bz2'.  Stop.

Darn, you're right.  Looks like it is meant to be run in the source
directory.  Sorry about that.  You do still need to say what release
you want to build.

Ian