Re: [PATCH] Cogito chicken-and-egg problem

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Apr 26, 2005, 16:38 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0504261229220.30848-100000@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <1114531570.19478.6.camel@dv>

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Pavel Roskin wrote:

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> Hello!
> 
> My patch for Makefile was misapplied, so installed commit-id is still
> needed for "make" to succeed.
> 
> Shell commands are processed by make before being passed to the shell,
> and $(...) is expanded by make before new PATH is set, as it is done in
> the current Makefile.
> 
> Also, the dependency on commit-id was dropped from my patch for some
> reason.  I believe it's still needed.  Also, we need a dependency on
> cat-file, which is used by commit-id internally.

commit-id doesn't really use cat-file; the way it calls gitXnormid.sh definitely suppresses that section. In fact, commit-id with no arguments is simply an easy-to-remember way of doing "cat .git/HEAD" using a much more complicated script. Earlier, I sent a patch to just do this, since it avoids the whole issue.

(Also, .git/HEAD is a dependancy, since you want to redo the version script if you commit; but if you don't have it, that's okay and just means you're building from a tarball, which is described completely by VERSION)

	-Daniel
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