On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > >>>>> Igor Pechtchanski writes: > > > Yes, .logs, or LOGS, or even just /usr/src/$PACKAGE[*] -- it's up to you. > > As for deleting... What I normally do with source packages is run > > "./PKG-VER.sh prep", and then move PKG-VER.sh, PKG-VER.tar and > > PKG-VER.patch to PKG-VER/CYGWIN-PATCHES. That helps me keep my /usr/src > > reasonably clean. But that's just me, and others may not want stuff > > deleted without their permission. > > Igor > > [*] If you choose the "no subdirectory" approach, beware that the g-b-s > > as it stands will overwrite the logs. That's why I suggested that the > > logs be created with lowercase names initially, but renamed to upper case > > in .spkg before building the source package. > > Ok, I try again. Now after unpacking of the source archive you have the > original logfiles compressed under /usr/src. This archive gets unpacked > to /usr/src/$PACKAGE/.buildlogs during prep(). > configure/make/check/install() still put their logfiles to > /usr/src/$PACKAGE/.sinst so it's easy to diff them against their > counterparts under /usr/src/$PACKAGE/.buildlogs.
Sounds good, except can you please resubmit the diff with some context, preferably unified, just to make sure I can apply it cleanly? Thanks, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA