Re: guile-snarf writes to $srcdir, which is not kosher

2002-04-23 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
From: Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 16:10:56 -0500 I've been trying to make sure to migrate all my 1.6 patches to HEAD, but there are still some outstanding. Of course some of the lag is because I'm not sure we'll want to handle things the same in 1.8.

Re: guile-snarf writes to $srcdir, which is not kosher

2002-04-23 Thread Rob Browning
Thien-Thi Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: in practice, this means changing HEAD branch to conform to LATER first, and branch_release-1-6 to conform to NOW. to me this seems like less work. Depends on the problem. For example, the recent library name changes relating to libltdl/dlopen

Re: guile-snarf writes to $srcdir, which is not kosher

2002-04-23 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
From: Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:42:58 -0500 Depends on the problem. For example, the recent library name changes relating to libltdl/dlopen issues may or may not belong in HEAD, but they're critical for 1.6. the recent changes may or may not belong

Re: guile-snarf writes to $srcdir, which is not kosher

2002-04-23 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
From: Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 18:09:04 -0500 Furthermore, as I've said several times before, this should give you a clue that saying things on mailing lists isn't as useful to other people understanding you, as writing them down somewhere under workbook/

Re: guile-snarf writes to $srcdir, which is not kosher

2002-04-09 Thread Marius Vollmer
Thien-Thi Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A VPATH build is when you compile in a directory other than the source directory. This is useful when you want to compile a package for different configurations but from a common source. The name stems from the fact that it is

Re: guile-snarf writes to $srcdir, which is not kosher

2002-04-08 Thread Marius Vollmer
Thien-Thi Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what is a VPATH build, specifically? A VPATH build is when you compile in a directory other than the source directory. This is useful when you want to compile a package for different configurations but from a common source. The name stems from the

Re: guile-snarf writes to $srcdir, which is not kosher

2002-04-08 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
From: Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 08 Apr 2002 18:45:44 +0200 A VPATH build is when you compile in a directory other than the source directory. This is useful when you want to compile a package for different configurations but from a common source. The name stems

guile-snarf writes to $srcdir, which is not kosher

2002-04-07 Thread Marius Vollmer
Sigh, I've seen this coming... guile-snarf writes its $cleanfile into the $srcdir, which is not a supported thing to do during a VPATH build. (This was uncovered by a simple make distcheck, which thankfully write-protects the source directory. I hope everybody uses make distcheck freely before

Re: guile-snarf writes to $srcdir, which is not kosher

2002-04-07 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
From: Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 08 Apr 2002 00:55:38 +0200 Sigh, I've seen this coming... guile-snarf writes its $cleanfile into the $srcdir, which is not a supported thing to do during a VPATH build. looks like some coding cowboy should've figured out what kind of