Re: nsmux: Build system

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 06:13:47PM +0200, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 06:51:57AM +0200, olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 02:35:14PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:

> > > Which way would be preferred: adapting the build system before the
> > > merge of after the merge?
> > > 
> > > I'd stand for the ``before the merge'' variant, since the current
> > > ``build system'' is actually a one-liner bash script invoking gcc.
> > 
> > Either before the merge, so you can test it by moving the existing
> > repository to a subdirectory in the hurd/ tree and test it there; or
> > directly in the merge process, without an extra commit for the build
> > system change alone. Not sure which is better really.
> 
> I think I have an extra argument for the second way: if I create a
> separate commit before the merge, things will stop working,

Yeah, you are right: you can't adapt the build system of the main Hurd
tree before merging in the directory; and you can't merge the directory
in without adapting the build system in the main Hurd... I forgot that
adapting the build system requires changes in the global tree, not only
in the subdirectory in question.

> and, as you once said, a commit is a set of changes after which
> everything works :-)

Indeed. The established term for this is "bisectability" -- I just
didn't know it at the time :-)

-antrik-