Makefile rules for ports tarballs are out of date.

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Sun, 18 Mar 2012, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> * Fix the ports Makefile to support export from git like the glibc
> Makefile does.

For master and 2.15 branch, yes.

> * Post patch for review on libc-ports and commit after discussion.

For master and 2.15 branch, yes.

> * Tag ports again.

GNU convention if it's necessary to replace a tarball is to use a version 
number such as 2.15a.  That could be used for a tag to distinguish a new 
tag from an old one.  But you'd need a special branch for 2.15 + Makefile 
fix, to avoid getting other post-2.15 changes from the branch.  So for 
2.15 I think it's better to:

> * Make the tarball.

Follow the instructions given by Alfred M. Szmidt to build the tarball and 
upload the tarballs now; sort out the ports makefile rules for 2.15.1 and 
2.16; given that they've been out-of-date for years they shouldn't block 
getting the 2.15 tarballs uploaded.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com