Request for help: Fix building tarballs for ports add-on.

[Andreas Jaeger]

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...

Andreas
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