Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Newbie -- setting up project with sub-trees

[Andrew Suffield]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 10:17:46PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> | The idea behind these config files is that you run "tla buildcfg (config
> | file", and tla will get the latest revision for the latest version on
> | the right, and put it into the directory on the left. 
> 
> FWIW I found the way that tla uses configs to be somewhat confusing.  As
> far as I could tell, the config file has to live in an arch project,

Not really, but it's somewhat erratic at present.

> and
> the name that you specify is interpreted relative to the top level of
> that project rather than the current directory.

This is a little quirky. It'll try the path you specify first, and if
that doesn't exist, it'll fall back to the tree root.

> Giving an absolute path
> (e.g. ~/configs/getogg as you say below) doesn't seem to work at all.

This is actually an old bug in the way that config names are checked.

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