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Re: libiberty/partition.c
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 07:52:14AM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 19:52:32 -0700
> From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
>
> In message <20000325013507.4371.qmail@daffy.airs.com>you write:
> > Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:30:58 -0800
> > From: Eric Christopher <echristo@cygnus.com>
> >
> > Doesn't appear to exist in the tree. Looks like this change:
> >
> > 2000-03-09 Alex Samuel <samuel@codesourcery.com>
> >
> > * Makefile.in (CFILES): Add partition.c.
> > (REQUIRED_OFILES): Add partition.o.
> > (partition.o): New rule.
> > * partition.c: New file.
> >
> > Didn't make it in - though it made it into egcs. Wonky.
> >
> > The binutils/gdb repository and the egcs repository are separate.
> > Checking something into egcs does not imply checking it into
> > binutils. However, if something is approved for checkin to the egcs
> > version of libiberty, please feel free to bring it over to the
> > binutils version of libiberty.
> I've been wondering how well CVS would work if there was a symlink for the
> libiberty & include directories until we can merge the sourceware & gcc
> repos. I haven't done any experiments, though I'm rather leery given the
> problems the FSF had with symlinks in the CVS tree.
>
>I just looked at the CVS code a bit, and I doubt that it would work
>correctly. The find_dirs call appears to explicitly skip symlinks
>when searching for directories.
>
>As I recall, the FSF was symlinking at the file level, not the
>directory level. I would be dubious about that too, because of the
>PreservePermissions support which, if enabled, causes CVS to version
>control symlinks.
I mentioned to Jeff that we could actually do an identity mount of
individual directories on sourceware, using NFS:
mount -t nfs localhost:/cvs/src/src/binutils /cvs/egcs/binutils
(I probably have the paths wrong, but you get the idea)
It's ugly and kludgy but it might be a short term solution...
cgf