Remove reference to obsolete file

GETTING.GNU.SOFTWARE.  Remove outdated comments.  Explain about
version of tar used.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 61bb7741b896e1c95d40474af3dccecc2a218991..9db6658120f9f176cd2b76f9518b3ce7bc0b9b81 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2001-09-04  Andrew Innes  <andrewi@gnu.org>
+
+       * admin/nt/makedist.bat: Remove reference to obsolete file
+       GETTING.GNU.SOFTWARE.  Remove outdated comments.  Explain about
+       version of tar used.
+
 2001-09-01  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
 
        * make-dist (nt): Add subdirs.el to the list of distributed files.

diff --git a/admin/nt/makedist.bat b/admin/nt/makedist.bat
index f069a572f47d420d5c1f64c508f104b0b343d9db..673598d8bc37444d444256c60803248562116f54 100755 (executable)
--- a/admin/nt/makedist.bat
+++ b/admin/nt/makedist.bat
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 @echo off\r
 \r
+rem This batch file doesn't work with Cygwin tar because #files#\r
+rem has DOS line endings, which Cygwin tar misinterprets.\r
+rem I use the version of tar from\r
+rem    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/utilities/i386/tar-1.11.2a.exe\r
+rem renamed as wtar.exe.\r
 set TAR=wtar\r
 \r
 rem Make a copy of current Emacs source\r
@@ -26,24 +31,14 @@ rem Keep this list in sync with the DONTCOMPILE list in lisp/Makefile.in
 \r
 set elfiles=%eld%/cus-load.el %eld%/cus-start.el %eld%/emacs-lisp/cl-specs.el %eld%/eshell/esh-maint.el %eld%/eshell/esh-groups.el %eld%/finder-inf.el %eld%/forms-d2.el %eld%/forms-pass.el %eld%/generic-x.el %eld%/international/latin-1.el %eld%/international/latin-2.el %eld%/international/latin-3.el %eld%/international/latin-4.el %eld%/international/latin-5.el %eld%/international/latin-8.el %eld%/international/latin-9.el %eld%/international/mule-conf.el %eld%/loaddefs.el %eld%/loadup.el %eld%/mail/blessmail.el %eld%/patcomp.el %eld%/paths.el %eld%/play/bruce.el %eld%/subdirs.el %eld%/term/internal.el %eld%/term/AT386.el  %eld%/term/apollo.el %eld%/term/bobcat.el %eld%/term/iris-ansi.el %eld%/term/keyswap.el %eld%/term/linux.el %eld%/term/lk201.el %eld%/term/news.el %eld%/term/vt102.el %eld%/term/vt125.el %eld%/term/vt200.el %eld%/term/vt201.el %eld%/term/vt220.el %eld%/term/vt240.el %eld%/term/vt300.el %eld%/term/vt320.el %eld%/term/vt400.el %eld%/term/vt420.el %eld%/term/wyse50.el %eld%/term/xterm.el %eld%/version.el\r
 \r
-rem set term_elfiles=%eld%/term/AT386.el %eld%/term/apollo.el %eld%/term/bg-mouse.el %eld%/term/bobcat.el %eld%/term/internal.el %eld%/term/iris-ansi.el %eld%/term/keyswap.el %eld%/term/linux.el %eld%/term/lk201.el %eld%/term/news.el %eld%/term/pc-win.el %eld%/term/sun-mouse.el %eld%/term/sun.el %eld%/term/sup-mouse.el %eld%/term/tvi970.el %eld%/term/vt100.el %eld%/term/vt102.el %eld%/term/vt125.el %eld%/term/vt200.el %eld%/term/vt201.el %eld%/term/vt220.el %eld%/term/vt240.el %eld%/term/vt300.el %eld%/term/vt320.el %eld%/term/vt400.el %eld%/term/vt420.el %eld%/term/w32-win.el %eld%/term/wyse50.el %eld%/term/x-win.el %eld%/term/xterm.el\r
-\r
-rem set elcfiles=%eld%/*.elc %eld%/emacs-lisp/*.elc %eld%/emulation/*.elc %eld%/gnus/*.elc %eld%/international/*.elc %eld%/language/*.elc %eld%/mail/*.elc %eld%/play/*.elc %eld%/progmodes/*.elc %eld%/term/*.elc %eld%/textmodes/*.elc\r
-\r
 set fns_el=\r
 for %%f in (emacs-%1/bin/fns*) do set fns_el=%fns_el% emacs-%1/bin/%%f\r
 \r
 echo Create bin distribution\r
 copy %3\README.W32 emacs-%1\README.W32\r
 \r
-rem %TAR% --exclude temacs.exe --exclude emacs.mdp --exclude *.pdb\r
-rem --exclude *.opt --exclude *.el --exclude *~ -cvf - emacs-%1/BUGS\r
-rem emacs-%1/GETTING.GNU.SOFTWARE emacs-%1/README emacs-%1/README.W32\r
-rem emacs-%1/bin %fns_el% emacs-%1/etc emacs-%1/info emacs-%1/lisp %elfiles%\r
-rem %term_elfiles% emacs-%1/lock emacs-%1/site-lisp -cvf - | gzip -9 > %2-bin-i386.tar.gz\r
-\r
 del #files#\r
-for %%f in (emacs-%1/BUGS emacs-%1/GETTING.GNU.SOFTWARE emacs-%1/README emacs-%1/README.W32) do echo %%f>>#files#\r
+for %%f in (emacs-%1/BUGS emacs-%1/README emacs-%1/README.W32) do echo %%f>>#files#\r
 for %%f in (emacs-%1/bin/fns*) do echo emacs-%1/bin/%%f>>#files#\r
 for %%f in (emacs-%1/bin emacs-%1/etc emacs-%1/info emacs-%1/lisp %elfiles%) do echo %%f>>#files#\r
 for %%f in (%eld%/term/*.el) do echo %eld%/term/%%f>>#files#\r