How do I create a GCC source code tarball?

[Robert Dubner]

I had a feeling that's what the answer was going to be, but, well, I figured 
it couldn't hurt to ask.

Especially because I hadn't before noticed the maintainer-scripts 
subdirectory.  That alone made asking worth it.

Thank you very much,

Bob Dubner

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 4, 2022 15:03
To: Robert Dubner <rdubner@symas.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: How do I create a GCC source code tarball?

On Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 4:32 PM Robert Dubner <rdubner@symas.com> wrote:
>
> I have modified the source code of GCC, and I need a tarball for that
> modified source.
>
> My code is based on the trunk branch of the repository at
> git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git
>
> I attempted to execute "make dist", and have encountered the response
>
>       Building a full distribution of this tree isn't done
>       via 'make dist'.  Check out the etc/ subdirectory
>
> I have been unable to locate a subdirectory name "etc/".
>
> With that as background, my question is:
>
> How do I create a source code tarball for GCC?

You just tar up the source.
You could use maintainer-scripts/gcc_release to make a snapshot but in the 
end it just does `tar xcfj file.tar.bz2 gcc` .

Thanks,
Andrew

>
> Thanks very much for any help.
>
>