On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 06:10:02PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Douglas R. Reno wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I need to have someone else's opinion about how to add the patch into
> >the instructions. Since it needs configure.ac, autoreconf -fiv must be
> >run to regenerate configure, eliminating the changes made by the
> >glibc-2.21 patch. Therefore, I need to know how to reorganize the page
> >to accommodate the patch. I would like some kind of recommendation on
> >how to restructure the page.
> 
> The real fix would be to patch configure.ac for the glibc-2.21 correction
> and then run autoreconf.  Since the linux_4.x_compilation_fix works on
> configure.ac, the glibc fixes could also be merged into a consolidated
> patch.
> 
Agreed.  Sometimes, we have taken an upstream configure.ac patch,
applied it, run autoreconf, and then created a new patch, edited
down to just configure.  In this case, the opposite approach is
required.
> Do you need help doing that?
> 
> Also in the patches, do NOT use embedded tabs (in patches or anything else
> in BLFS). The valgrind-3.10.1-linux_4.x_compilation_fix-1.patch needs to be
> redone to remove them.
> 
> $ cat /etc/vimrc
> " Begin /root/.vimrc
> 
> set nocompatible
> set backspace=2
> syntax on
> 
> set expandtab
> set tabstop=3
> set shiftwidth=3
> set laststatus=2
> ...
> 
> 
> If an existing file already has tabs in it, the command in vim is :retab
> assuming the above vimrc.
> 
> 
>   -- Bruce
> 
Bruce, I can see that you use tiny tab spacing in your own code, but
what is your objection to tabs in a patch ?  If upstream uses tabs,
then tabs are the right thing for the patch.  For a sed, spacing and
alignment are optional.

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