(I've cut the Cc's back to just the list)
Loïc,
Thank you for the bug reporting tips. I knew there was a specific diff
format that was favored, but I couldn't remember what it was. I will
use -u in the future and check out your DIFF alias also.
To answer your question on my "use case" for the alternate prefix. I am
in what may be a relatively common situation of supporting a team of
embedded developers working in a generic build environment for
application code that gets deployed on top of an embedded system based
on the Debian OS. One of my jobs is to provide the cross compiling
toolchain for this embedded environment. Unfortunately I don't have
full control over the generic build environment, and it is not a simple
Debian environment.
Since we use Debian as our embedded operating system environment to
deploy this software, it is most safe and effective to use the same
version of the compiler and toolchain as is used to build the underlying
Debian system. So I leverage the most excellent Debian cross compiler
toolchains for this purpose. To do this, I need to make the toolchains
standalone for use outside of a Debian environment, using an alternate
prefix so that they compile for use and install under /opt/.. instead of
/usr/.., which is one of the requirements placed on me by the release
engineers maintaining those build servers and that build environment.
I'll post my diffs for modification of the binutils makefile next week.
Essentially they are the same removal of the hardcoded '/usr' paths in
favor of a $(PF) macro variable to provide an alternate prefix.
Thanks,
-Jim
On 7/2/2010 4:56 PM, Loïc Minier wrote:
(Taking the liberty to Cc: you in case you arent subscribed :)
I'd personally love seeing your prefix modification patches (diff -u
please ;-) but more importantly I'd love to hear what you use them
for, what's your use case.
Thanks,
PS: I use alias diff='LC_ALL=C diff -upTrN'
