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Mutilating my own stdlib.h


From: Bruce Korb
Subject: Mutilating my own stdlib.h
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:24:53 -0700
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Just to be clear:  I spelled the macro "LIBPOSIX_EARLY"
instead of "gl_EARLY".  Oops.  Entirely my fault.
The only additional thing that might have been done
is a sanity check on the substitutions.  But, heck.
The header was sufficiently mutilated to convince me
I was in the weeds.  I just needed a hint about how
I got there. :)  Thank you.


WRT "distclean", I never do that any more.
I clone the repo into a build directory and do all my
fiddling there.  Yes, "git" has a command to remove
everything, but I developed my procedures back in
CVS (pre-svn) days, and old habits die hard....
Purging all non-SCM managed sources is very reliable.

Additionally, when it occurs in an isolated project, the developer knows
what were his most recent changes; this is not the case any more for the
average gnulib user when it comes to the recent changes in gnulib.

Since blindly rerunning "make" is unreliable, I find that people should
know that "make distclean; ./configure; make" is more reliable, since that
will save them time.

Yes, too unreliable.

 clonetree src dest;cd dest;bootstrap;configure .....



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