Re: [bleau@igb.umontreal.ca: Re: OpenGL, -mno-cygwin ***Aside: mailing list search engine is broken]

[Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>]

On 17 Feb 2001, Tom Tromey wrote:

> >>>>> "H-P" == Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com> writes:
>
> H-P> Some such failure.  There were no traces of indexing problems,
> H-P> probably because the sourceware side does not do any automatic
> H-P> checking after indexing.
>
> Is there any way for the indexer itself to detect that it fails and
> then, say, send out email indicating that?  That sure would be nice.

The sourceware side could do like the gcc side does, and invoke htsearch
on the command-line with a little sanity test suite before installing the
updated database.  I've been too paranoid having it send out mail though.
When failing, on the gcc side it just re-indexes from scratch (once), and
moves the log from update-log to update-log.failed, so the last failure is
identifiable and at times traceable.  See htupdate-gcc.sh in infra/bin.

Someone, feel free to copy to sourceware side, or merge the two
htupdate*.sh scripts.  I have been lame^H^H^H^Hcautious in avoiding adding
stuff to the sourceware side, it not being my turf, and me being under the
impression that some responsible sourceware maintainer would come around
and fix it there. ;-)

brgds, H-P