[libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] build: allow for local gnulib diffs

[Eric Blake]

On 11/09/2011 06:47 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 05:37:19PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Commit f7bd00c12 pulled in a gnulib module that fails to compile
>> on mingw.  While it would be nice to pull in a newer version of
>> .gnulib that fixes this, it is difficult to backport any .gnulib
>> update to older releases.  So, it makes sense to take advantage
>> of gnulib-tool's ability to support local diffs, where we can
>> apply specific diffs in our use of gnulib without waiting for
>> upstream gnulib to pick up those changes, as well as avoiding
>> a wholesale .gnulib update.  The existence of local diffs will
>> also make it easier to backport fixes against a tarball (as long
>> as a tarball and libvirt.git share the same .gnulib commit, then
>> the tarball can be patched by applying the same local diffs as
>> a post-release libvirt.git commit, without having to rerun an
>> entire gnulib-tool bootstrap).
>>
>> This patch introduces the framework for supporting local diffs,
>> without actually introducing any.
>>
>
> ACK

Now pushed.

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