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27.1.50; Emacs 27.1 release archive missing emacs-module.h

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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 45012 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#45012: 27.1.50;
 Emacs 27.1 release archive missing emacs-module.h
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 19:11:44 +0100

Am Mi., 2. Dez. 2020 um 19:10 Uhr schrieb Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:
>
> > From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2020 18:52:26 +0100
> >
> > The release archive for Emacs 27.1 as distributed on ftp.gnu.org is
> > missing the emacs-module.h header.
>
> This happens because emacs-module.h was removed from make-dist, in
> this commit:
>
>   commit 1043cd30acffcc0b61da4a80dcf3f8a5ac459267
>   Author:     Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
>   AuthorDate: Sat Jun 8 14:08:05 2019 -0700
>   Commit:     Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
>   CommitDate: Sat Jun 8 14:42:10 2019 -0700
>
>       Fix out-of-source make-dist problems
>
>       Problem with jisx2131-filter reported by Phillip Lord in:
>       https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2019-06/msg00147.html
>       * admin/charsets/Makefile.in (SED_SCRIPT):
>       Put it in $(srcdir), which is not necessarily the working directory.
>       ($(SED_SCRIPT)): Rename from jisx2131-filter.  All uses changed.
>       (clean): Do not remove SED_SCRIPT.
>       (extraclean): Remove it here instead.
>       * make-dist (possibly_non_vc_files): Remove src/emacs-module.h.
>       Although it is portable and could be distributed in the tarball,
>       it's too much hassle to do that, so let each builder make it.
>
> Wasn't there some discussion about the problems with distributing it,
> as it is not entirely portable?

If so, then we need to fix that. emacs-module.h must be 100% portable.

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