[Libvir] make syntax-check fails with bzr checkouts

[Soren Hansen]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 07:24:42PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, the above no longer applies, due to upstream (gnulib)
>>> changes to deal with non-srcdir (aka VPATH) builds.  I updated
>>> libvirt from gnulib just yesterday, and will again, later today.
>>> Can you adapt your patch to make bzr work with the newer version?
>> I'll do it when you're done updating gnulib.
> I'm done for now, and pulled the new version into libvirt.

Ok, I'll fix up the patch later tonight.

>> Well, if anyone insists on not changing something that only works
>> with bash to something that works with any shell (${*:-*} vs.
>> ${*-*}) , but also refuses to put /bin/bash explicitly as the
>> interpreter is just being pointlessly difficult, IMO.
> Um... maybe you didn't notice that I removed the problematic syntax
> altogether?

Sure. I'm just pointing out that if *someone* were to insist that this
is "an Ubuntu problem, because we don't use the same /bin/sh as most
other distros", I'd be rather annoyed.

> >> Here's the patch I've pushed to gnulib:
> >>
> >>   http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=173a9f0c48a16c3507f8
> >
> > That patch will make the cvs case fail, too. It will prepend a ./ to all
> > path names which will screw with the comparison, AFAICS.
> It handled one case.  The two subsequent patches addressed the others.

Oh, ok. Sorry. I thought they would adress different things. I can't see
them in that git tree, I think?

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Soren Hansen               | 
Virtualisation specialist  | Ubuntu Server Team
Canonical Ltd.             | http://www.ubuntu.com/
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