[Nut-upsdev] Opening the 2.4 commit fest (USB file stuff)

[Charles Lepple]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Arnaud Quette <aquette.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2008/11/16 Arjen de Korte <nut+devel at de-korte.org>:
>>> Citeren Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> I haven't looked into this much, but do we want to remove some of the
>>>> generated files from SVN, and have the build process generate them
>>>> every time? This would ensure that they are always up-to-date.
>>>
>>> I think we should, this is as far as I can see the whole purpose of
>>> this exercise.
>>
>> I wanted to do so, but refrained myself because of the Perl depends...
>> that's why I've put it in the dist target.
>
> Hmm, I'm not sure the tools directory is getting built.
>
> However, if someone is building from SVN, they need auto*, which means
> they need Perl.

Ah, we are running 'make distcheck(-light)' in Buildbot, versus 'make dist'.

Still, I think we should make this part of the normal build procedure
(or at least 'make distcheck'), but we can use 'make dist' to
distribute the USB files on the off-chance that someone doesn't have
Perl installed when they build from a tarball. (We aren't depending on
a specific version of Perl, so it's not an outrageous dependency.)

Otherwise, nobody will ever test this.

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- Charles Lepple