fixup! add autotools tarball support

README.md

@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ Command line utility for creating new releases of libuv.
 
 1. Make sure you have the most up-to-date version of this tool and the libuv
 branch that will be used to create the release.
-2. Currently, the release tool requires Node.js v12.10.x. You may want to use
-something like `nvm` to change Node versions.
+2. Currently, the release tool requires Node.js v12 or later. You may want to
+use something like `nvm` to change Node versions.
 3. Run `node ./release.js --version x.x.x --dir path --remote name`, where
 `x.x.x` is the version of libuv you are creating, `path` is the location of
 the libuv core repository on your machine, and `name` is the libuv core git

release.js

@@ -402,15 +402,11 @@ function createCMakeTarBall() {
 
 function createAutotoolsTarBall() {
   var tag = ver.format(state.releaseVersion);
-  try {
   var distver = format('%d.%d.%d',
                        state.releaseVersion.major,
                        state.releaseVersion.minor,
                        state.releaseVersion.patch);
-  } catch (err) {
-    return pauseRetry(err);
-  }
-  child_process.execFile('./autogen.sh', [], { stdio: 'inherit', cwd: dir},
+  child_process.execFile('./autogen.sh', [], { stdio: 'inherit', cwd: dir },
                          function(err, stdout, stderr) {
     if (err) {
       console.log(stdout);
@@ -424,7 +420,7 @@ function createAutotoolsTarBall() {
       return pauseRetry(err);
     }
     child_process.execFile(dir + '/configure', [],
-                           { stdio: 'inherit', cwd: builddir},
+                           { stdio: 'inherit', cwd: builddir },
                            function(err, stdout, stderr) {
       if (err) {
         console.log(stdout);
@@ -443,7 +439,7 @@ function createAutotoolsTarBall() {
         var dstfilename = path.join(dir, 'dist', format('libuv-%s-dist.tar.gz', tag));
         try {
           fs.renameSync(srcfilename, dstfilename);
-          fs.rmdirSync(builddir, { recursive: true });
+          fs.rmdirSync(builddir, { recursive: true }); // in future nodejs, this will be called rmSync
         } catch (err) {
           return pauseRetry(err);
         }