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From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
To: "Nicola Pero" <nicola.pero@meta-innovation.com>
Cc: "Mike Stump" <mikestump@comcast.net>,
	       "gcc-patches\@gnu.org" <gcc-patches@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: (build) Patch to fix cp/cfns.gperf building issues
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ortydhobr5.fsf@livre.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1303558468.699813970@www2.webmail.us> (Nicola Pero's message of	"Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:34:28 +0200 (CEST)")

On Apr 23, 2011, "Nicola Pero" <nicola.pero@meta-innovation.com> wrote:

> Ok to commit ?

Yeah, thanks.

> Index: ChangeLog
> +2011-04-22  Nicola Pero  <nicola.pero@meta-innovation.com>
> +
> +       * Makefile.in (ENABLE_MAINTAINER_RULES): New.
> +
> Index: cp/ChangeLog
> +2011-04-23  Nicola Pero  <nicola.pero@meta-innovation.com>,
> +           Mike Stump <mikestump@comcast.net>
> +
> +       * Make-lang.in ($(srcdir)/cp/cfns.h): Enable the dependency only
> +       in maintainer mode.  Use the --output-file option of gperf instead
> +       of > to prevent creating an empty cp/cfns.h when gperf is not
> +       available.
> +

-pedantic review: how about outputting to a temporary file (say
cp/cfns.hT) and only renaming to the intended name on success, so that,
if gperf crashes or we reboot part-way through it, we don't end up with
a partially-generated file that will seem to be up to date?

-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-29  5:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-22 15:22 Nicola Pero
2011-04-22 18:04 ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-04-22 23:00   ` Nicola Pero
2011-04-23  0:10 ` Mike Stump
2011-04-23 17:55   ` Nicola Pero
2011-04-23 19:58     ` Mike Stump
2011-04-29  8:26     ` Alexandre Oliva [this message]
2011-04-29 20:37       ` Nicola Pero
2011-04-27 14:50   ` Mike Stump
2011-04-28 13:31     ` Nicola Pero

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