From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27848 invoked by alias); 15 Aug 2003 21:28:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 27839 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2003 21:28:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 15 Aug 2003 21:28:11 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.20 #1 (Debian)) id 19nm7H-00011z-16; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 17:28:11 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 21:28:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Cc: ac131313@redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Ugly little hack for snapshot problem Message-ID: <20030815212811.GB2840@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain , ac131313@redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <200308152120.h7FLKVcn020381@duracef.shout.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200308152120.h7FLKVcn020381@duracef.shout.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-08/txt/msg00165.txt.bz2 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