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On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, David Golden wrote:
> > I don't agree. We support building outside of git repositories, because
> >
> > a: we distribute tarballs
> > b: we build on platforms that don't support git
>
> I agree. I'll quote your original message back to you:
>
> > This isn't a problem when building from a distribution tarball or
> > other clean checkout, but it is causing "fun" (ie strange noisy catastrophic
> > build failures) when anyone runs git pull on a build checkout, and then
> > runs disclean before starting again.
>
> > We can't assume that
> >
> > a: git is present to do our work for us
> >
> > b: that we can get it to delete all the build files, without also deleting
> > user owned files. distclean is careful to only delete the things that we
> > know we built.
>
> Per your identification of the problem, we can assume (a). Regarding
> (b), I don't think we have to automate a solution, only tell the user
> that they're doing it wrong.
Actually, no. I keep the perl sources on an NFS-mounted directory. I use
one system (that has git) to update the sources, but I'm often building,
using the same directory, on a different system that doesn't have git.
Thus when calling Configure or 'make distclean', git isn't available to do
the work. (Similarly, I often rsync the sources elsewhere to other
systems that don't have git. The same issue arises there.)
The issue is rare enough that a Configure WHOA THERE, followed by manual
fix-up, seems fine to me.
--
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
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