Re: libiberty/partition.c

[Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>]

On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 07:52:14AM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>   Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 19:52:32 -0700
>   From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
>
>     In message <20000325013507.4371.qmail@daffy.airs.com>you write:
>     >    Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:30:58 -0800
>     >    From: Eric Christopher <echristo@cygnus.com>
>     > 
>     >    Doesn't appear to exist in the tree.  Looks like this change:
>     > 
>     >    2000-03-09  Alex Samuel  <samuel@codesourcery.com>
>     > 
>     > 	   * Makefile.in (CFILES): Add partition.c.
>     > 	   (REQUIRED_OFILES): Add partition.o.
>     > 	   (partition.o): New rule.
>     > 	   * partition.c: New file.
>     > 
>     >    Didn't make it in - though it made it into egcs.  Wonky.
>     > 
>     > The binutils/gdb repository and the egcs repository are separate.
>     > Checking something into egcs does not imply checking it into
>     > binutils.  However, if something is approved for checkin to the egcs
>     > version of libiberty, please feel free to bring it over to the
>     > binutils version of libiberty.
>   I've been wondering how well CVS would work if there was a symlink for the
>   libiberty & include directories until we can merge the sourceware & gcc
>   repos.  I haven't done any experiments, though I'm rather leery given the
>   problems the FSF had with symlinks in the CVS tree.
>
>I just looked at the CVS code a bit, and I doubt that it would work
>correctly.  The find_dirs call appears to explicitly skip symlinks
>when searching for directories.
>
>As I recall, the FSF was symlinking at the file level, not the
>directory level.  I would be dubious about that too, because of the
>PreservePermissions support which, if enabled, causes CVS to version
>control symlinks.

I mentioned to Jeff that we could actually do an identity mount of
individual directories on sourceware, using NFS:

mount -t nfs localhost:/cvs/src/src/binutils /cvs/egcs/binutils

(I probably have the paths wrong, but you get the idea)

It's ugly and kludgy but it might be a short term solution...

cgf