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Re: [PATCH 1/5] General configuration portability (Resend)

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BCBrandon Casey <brandon.casey.ctr@nrlssc.navy.mil>
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Mar 11, 2010, 23:48 UTC
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On 03/11/2010 10:51 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> 
>> Resending some patches that didn't make it, in the correct format
>> and taking into account the feedback I already had on one of the
>> later patches...
>>
>> This patch is in part to deal with peculiarities of our build
>> environment (software packages are installed in their own directory
>> tree, for example, and oftentimes we need to set additional -I options
>> in CPPFLAGS, or -L options in LDFLAGS, among others).
>>
>> However this is also where we put configuration changes to add
>> additional tests, or fix Makefile problems so that everything builds
>> on all of our supported architectures.  Probably, much of this patch
>> is useful upstream.
>> ---
>>  Makefile             |   50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>>  aclocal.m4           |   41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  config.mak.in        |   10 ++++++++-
>>  configure.ac         |   51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>>  git-compat-util.h    |    8 +++++-
>>  perl/Makefile        |    3 +-
>>  perl/Makefile.PL     |    2 +-
>>  t/t7610-mergetool.sh |   25 +++++++++++++----------
>>  8 files changed, 156 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 aclocal.m4
> 
> Whoa.
> 
> Pretty large patch, no? And looking at things like this:
> 
>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>> index 8fdc421..6058805 100644
>> --- a/Makefile
>> +++ b/Makefile
>> @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ endif
>>  
>>  CFLAGS = -g -O2 -Wall
>>  LDFLAGS =
>> -ALL_CFLAGS = $(CFLAGS)
>> +ALL_CFLAGS = $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS)
> 
> It seems to me that this wants to be a relatively large patch series of 
> well-contained, easy-to-review, tiny patches.
> 
> Am I correct?
Yes, please.
-brandon
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  1. 1/5 General configuration portability (Resend)Gary V. Vaughan, Mar 11, 2010
  2. Johannes SchindelinMar 11, 2010
  3. Brandon CaseyMar 11, 2010
  4. Gary V. VaughanMar 12, 2010
  5. Sverre RabbelierMar 12, 2010

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