Re: Prerelease GNU Make 4.4.0.90 on Windows using tcc compiler

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org>
> Cc: make-w32@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 09:25:09 -0500
> 
> On Sun, 2023-01-15 at 08:40 +0100, Christian Jullien wrote:
> > Trying the current snapshot I get this error. I've got this error
> > each time I've tested a snapshot.
> 
> I'm afraid I don't know what you mean by a "snapshot".  The GNU Make
> project doesn't publish "daily snapshots" like the ones published by
> GCC etc. if that's what you mean, so I don't know where you got that
> from but it wasn't from me.
> 
> The prerelease package I published and which is referenced in the
> parent message absolutely has all the files you listed, contained in
> it:
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 0/0   1444 2023-01-14 14:08 make-4.4.0.90/src/mkconfig.h
> -rw-r--r-- 0/0   5990 2023-01-14 14:08 make-4.4.0.90/lib/glob.in.h
> -rw-r--r-- 0/0  15528 2023-01-14 14:08 make-4.4.0.90/lib/intprops.h
> 
> etc.
> 
> Are you (and Eli) saying that this 4.4.0.90 prerelease package is
> broken somehow?

Oops, sorry!  The tarball is okay, and builds fine.

I'm guessing that Christian asked Savannah to produce a snapshot of
the Git repository (it has such abilities for every project), and that
gives a tarball where some files you generate when tarring a release
aren't present.