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commit dd7c08df9c4640419a408949defed5e04ec8ab13
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Jan 29 01:28:01 2026 -0600
HACKING: Drop now-unnecessary discussion.
Continues commit 2889574580, 16 January.
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HACKING | 13 -------------
1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
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@@ -64,19 +64,6 @@ mailing list <[email protected]> or Savannah issue tracker.
If you find a defect in a test script, that can be reported via Savannah
like any other bug.
-When you run 'make distcheck', you may occasionally encounter a
-surprising problem where the build fails due to missing test scripts.
-This is more likely when using a modified (formerly: "dirty") checkout,
-because "git describe" appends "-modifier" to the git version
-information, and that in turn goes into the name of the distribution
-archive and the directory into which it unpacks. Long file names can
-then exceed the 99-character limit to which GNU tar still defaults for
-archive members (preserving compatibility with the tar format used by
-Seventh Edition Unix). Scroll back in your build to the "second build",
-where the distribution archive is unpacked in a squirreled-away
-directory selected by Automake. If this is the case, you will see error
-messages from "tar" (GNU tar, at any rate), warning of the problem.
-
Documenting changes
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