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Re: maint.mk: absolute VPATH build fix


From: Akim Demaille
Subject: Re: maint.mk: absolute VPATH build fix
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:44:53 +0200

Le 29 juil. 2012 à 20:11, Jim Meyering a écrit :

>> -    $(emit-commit-log) > .ci-msg
>> -    $(VC) commit -F .ci-msg -a
>> -    rm .ci-msg
>> +    $(emit-commit-log) \
>> +      | (cd $(srcdir) && $(VC) commit -F - -a)
> 
> I do like avoiding the temporary file, but this induces a down side:
> with this patch there would be no build failure when emit-commit-log fails.
> What do you think?

I guess that in that case the message will most probably be
empty, and git will fail, but there's no guarantee that the
message will really be empty :(

If you think it is ok to create .ci-msg in $srcdir, then
that's another possible path to address this issue.




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