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Re: [bug-inetutils] Present release goals
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: [bug-inetutils] Present release goals |
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Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:55:31 +0200 |
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Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden> writes:
> tisdag den 18 oktober 2011 klockan 20:10 skrev Alfred M. Szmidt detta:
>> 1) "ftpd/ftpcmd.c" is never removed by the target "distclean";
>> thus is never regenerated by Bison, once the file already is
>> present.
>>
>> That is as it should be, we don't want to require bison to compile
>> inetutils. There is a target called maintainer-clean which will clean
>> out any files not part of the "source tree".
>>
>> GNU Bison is required to generate ftpcmd.c. But we should have a
>> better check for it when the corresponding .c file doesn't exist, and
>> bail out early.
>
> This ought to mean two things:
>
> * Bootstrapping is presently not sufficient to produce a usable
> source distribution.
I don't think this is in general never true -- in general you need to
bootstrap + configure + make dist in order to guarantee that the build
tree is usable. There can be many things that is needed in a source
distribution that are built (e.g., documentation), although InetUtils is
relatively simply today.
> Thus my reported build problem for OpenBSD and FreeBSD seem to be
> due to a change in my habits to move the source tree from my main
> development system in GNU/Linux to my secondary systems for porting.
> This is comforting for us to know and for me to understand.
Moving live trees between systems is often fragile and can lead to
difficult to debug issues.
/Simon
- [bug-inetutils] Present release goals, Mats Erik Andersson, 2011/10/12
- Re: [bug-inetutils] Present release goals, Mats Erik Andersson, 2011/10/12
- Re: [bug-inetutils] Present release goals, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2011/10/15
- Re: [bug-inetutils] Present release goals, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2011/10/15
- Re: [bug-inetutils] Present release goals, Mats Erik Andersson, 2011/10/17
- Re: [bug-inetutils] Present release goals, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2011/10/18
- Re: [bug-inetutils] Present release goals, Mats Erik Andersson, 2011/10/18
- Re: [bug-inetutils] Present release goals, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2011/10/18
- Re: [bug-inetutils] Present release goals, Mats Erik Andersson, 2011/10/19
- Re: [bug-inetutils] Present release goals,
Simon Josefsson <=
Re: [bug-inetutils] Present release goals, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2011/10/15
Re: [bug-inetutils] Present release goals, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2011/10/15
Re: [bug-inetutils] Present release goals, Simon Josefsson, 2011/10/16
[bug-inetutils] TFTP client with IPv6 (Was: Present release goals), Mats Erik Andersson, 2011/10/29