Your proposal sounds good to me. Thanks! Debbie
On May 2, 2018, at 6:38 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
On 05/02/2018 05:20 PM, Deborah Goldsmith wrote:
I picked up the 2018e tag from the GitHub repository, but AFAICT it’s not possible to build the rearguard tarballs on a system that doesn’t have lzip.
It is possible. The following shell script worked for me:
make version VERSION=`cat version` make VERSION=$VERSION tzdata$VERSION-rearguard.tar.gz
This is an awkward hack, though, so thanks for reporting the issue. There should be a better way.
The traditional_tarballs target doesn’t build the rearguard tarball. It probably should.
I'd prefer that target to build just the two traditional tarballs that we've been building for ages, and to have a new target for the new stuff. How about the attached proposed patch? With it, one can build the tarball in question with 'make rearguard_tarballs', which is more convenient than the above hack. <0001-New-make-rule-rearguard_tarballs.txt>