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Re: [g-b-s Patch: next try] Write and save logfiles forconfigure/make/check/install
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
> >>>>> Igor Pechtchanski writes:
>
> > Yes, .logs, or LOGS, or even just /usr/src/$PACKAGE[*] -- it's up to you.
> > As for deleting... What I normally do with source packages is run
> > "./PKG-VER.sh prep", and then move PKG-VER.sh, PKG-VER.tar and
> > PKG-VER.patch to PKG-VER/CYGWIN-PATCHES. That helps me keep my /usr/src
> > reasonably clean. But that's just me, and others may not want stuff
> > deleted without their permission.
> > Igor
> > [*] If you choose the "no subdirectory" approach, beware that the g-b-s
> > as it stands will overwrite the logs. That's why I suggested that the
> > logs be created with lowercase names initially, but renamed to upper case
> > in .spkg before building the source package.
>
> Ok, I try again. Now after unpacking of the source archive you have the
> original logfiles compressed under /usr/src. This archive gets unpacked
> to /usr/src/$PACKAGE/.buildlogs during prep().
> configure/make/check/install() still put their logfiles to
> /usr/src/$PACKAGE/.sinst so it's easy to diff them against their
> counterparts under /usr/src/$PACKAGE/.buildlogs.
Sounds good, except can you please resubmit the diff with some context,
preferably unified, just to make sure I can apply it cleanly?
Thanks,
Igor
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