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Re: Ugly little hack for snapshot problem
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net>
- Cc: ac131313 at redhat dot com, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 17:28:11 -0400
- Subject: Re: Ugly little hack for snapshot problem
- References: <200308152120.h7FLKVcn020381@duracef.shout.net>
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 05:20:31PM -0400, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> Now I've got a third idea. It's simple:
>
> src-release walks the tree and configures all the subdirs ...
> src-release walks the tree and makes 'distclean ...'
> + src-release calls 'rm -f dejagnu/example/calc/config.status'
>
> Advantages:
>
> It's very easily seen to be correct.
> It's very easily seen not to touch anything except src-release.
> It patches src-release, not dejagnu, so it doesn't get wiped
> by a dejagnu import.
> I can stick a comment in there so that if dejagnu evers gets fixed,
> and we import a new dejagnu, the kludge can go away soon after that.
Sounds fine. Could use it for intl too.
> Disadvantages:
>
> It's ugly.
> The top-level MAINTAINERS file does not say who owns 'src-release'.
>
> Like the cliche says: "if it's stupid, and it works, it isn't stupid."
>
> How about it?
GDB and binutils own src-release. As far as I'm concerned, it's
reasonable; let's see what others say.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer