Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Peter or Marc could clue you in a bit better, but I think it's as
> simple as saying "make dist" at the top level of a modified source
> tree. This gets you a source tarball the same way the release
> tarballs are made.
I seem to be able to "sneak up on it from behind" by doing a regular
make and then "make distclean" and copying the results. Perhaps
someone knows off-hand what I'm missing that prevents "make dist" from
working. The attempt ends with:
make[3]: Entering directory
`/home/kgrittn/pg/pgsql/postgresql-8.5devel/contrib/xml2'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `distprep'.
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/kgrittn/pg/pgsql/postgresql-8.5devel/contrib/xml2'
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/kgrittn/pg/pgsql/postgresql-8.5devel/contrib'
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/kgrittn/pg/pgsql/postgresql-8.5devel'
make -C postgresql-8.5devel/doc/src/sgml/ HISTORY INSTALL
regress_README
make[1]: Entering directory
`/home/kgrittn/pg/pgsql/postgresql-8.5devel/doc/src/sgml'
"/usr/bin/perl" generate_history.pl "." release.sgml
>tempfile_HISTORY.sgml
jade -D . -d stylesheet.dsl -i output-text -t sgml -V nochunks
tempfile_HISTORY.sgml >HISTORY.html
/bin/sh: jade: not found
make[1]: *** [HISTORY.html] Error 127
make[1]: *** Deleting file `HISTORY.html'
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/kgrittn/pg/pgsql/postgresql-8.5devel/doc/src/sgml'
make: *** [distdir] Error 2
-Kevin
