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From:
Brian Fraser
Date:
July 29, 2014 14:19
Subject:
Re: Build fixes for cherry-picking to maint-5.20?
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CA+nL+nZszLY3J3f5_nb0YLjXzxX_bpgfLTaB4cL1E8dmMYCdEw@mail.gmail.com
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 28 July 2014 12:27, Brian Fraser <fraserbn@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> The following build/test fixes, mostly for Android, look good for
>>> maint-5.20 to me. Any seconders and thirders?
>>>
>>
>> Since I committed most of these, I'll abstain from actually voting,
>> but a soft +1 to all of them, except
>>
>>> 329865d Makefile.SH: Fix cross builds with -Uhostgenerate
>>
>>
>>> ef4ead6 Makefile.SH: Add missing files for make test on cross builds
>>
>> This. I'm not sure if it's needed for 5.20; I think it might be all
>> due to changes in blead. The problem is that, if a file should be
>> copied but isn't, then one test during all of 'make test' will fail.
>> However, if we try to copy a file that doesn't exist in 5.20, then
>> *all* of make test will fail.
>>
>
> Would it be easy for you to test the current maint-5.20 branch to
> determine if we need this change or not?
>
> (I think this is not something that I can test myself (on Windows...)
> since it's a change to Makefile.SH.)

Sure! I'll give this a shot when I get home in a couple of hours.

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