Re: "cvsu --list" during distcheck

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Jim" == Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

 Jim> Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> wrote:
 >> I can't distcheck coreutils, because it hangs like this:
 Jim> [using my private, hacked-up version of cvsu]

 Jim> Hi Alexandre!

 Jim> Thanks for reporting that.
 Jim> I knew that particular little sin would come back to haunt me :-)

 Jim> It's a copy of http://www.cygnus.com/~tromey/ from around 1998
 Jim> that I and a few other people have hacked on since.

Thanks.  I managed to distcheck CVS Corutils with CVS Automake,
Autoconf 2.59, and Gettext 0.12.1.

I've run `autoreconf -vfi', which probably installed the files
from Gettext 0.11.5 since that's what configure.ac asks.  make
distcheck then failed with

info: Writing node (libc.info.gz)Formatting Calendar Time...
info: Done.
m4/gettext.m4:          cat "$ac_given_srcdir/$ac_dir/POTFILES.in" | sed -e 
"/^#/d" -e "/^[     ]*\$/d" -e "s,.*,     $top_srcdir/& \\\\," | sed -e 
"\$s/\(.*\) \\\\/\1/" > "$ac_dir/POTFILES"
m4/progtest.m4:  IFS="${IFS=    }"; ac_save_ifs="$IFS"; IFS="${IFS}:"
Makefile.maint: found SPACE-TAB sequence; remove the SPACE
make[2]: *** [sc_space_tab] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/adl/projs/cvs/coreutils'
make[1]: *** [distcheck-hook] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/adl/projs/cvs/coreutils'
make: *** [distcheck] Error 2

I've thus commented the sc_space_tab check from Makefile.maint,
and distcheck succeeded.

 Jim> If there is a publicly maintained tool that does the same
 Jim> job, I'll be happy to switch.

Maybe you could simply contribute yours to cvs-utils.
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz