Re: nsmux: Build system

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hello!

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 07:19:47AM +0100, olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 06:13:47PM +0200, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 06:51:57AM +0200, olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net
> > wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 02:35:14PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
> > > > Which way would be preferred: adapting the build system before the
> > > > merge of after the merge?
> > > > 
> > > > I'd stand for the ``before the merge'' variant, since the current
> > > > ``build system'' is actually a one-liner bash script invoking gcc.
> > > 
> > > Either before the merge, so you can test it by moving the existing
> > > repository to a subdirectory in the hurd/ tree and test it there; or
> > > directly in the merge process, without an extra commit for the build
> > > system change alone. Not sure which is better really.
> > 
> > I think I have an extra argument for the second way: if I create a
> > separate commit before the merge, things will stop working,
> 
> Yeah, you are right: you can't adapt the build system of the main Hurd
> tree before merging in the directory; and you can't merge the directory
> in without adapting the build system in the main Hurd... I forgot that
> adapting the build system requires changes in the global tree, not only
> in the subdirectory in question.

nsmux is buildable these days simply by: configure && make


Regards,
 Thomas

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