Re: local patches feature

["Dan Kegel" <dank at kegel dot com>]

On 2/20/06, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> wrote:
> Well. "C" seems to be the locale of choice, but unfortunately, some patches
> were not ordered with the C locale when created, but with some en_* locale
> (must be en_US, I guess).

Really?  Got an example?

> I think we should try every build possible, using the C locale, and look at
> those builds which fail. For those, set the locale to en_US, and try them
> again. For those that still fail, then we have a problem, because we don't
> know how they possibly were created.

You scare me :-)

> So the best option IMHO is to use a series file, and fall back to using
> file sorting for directories that don't have such a file.

That's what we plan to do.

> I will have a look at ct-0.40 when I have time (probably tonight (GMT+1)).

It's not out yet!

> Ho, and a stupid question: is it even thinkable to one day have a front-end
> to crosstool that let's you pick the binutils, the C library, the gcc, the
> headers (kernel or sanitised), etc..., and outputs the .dat file for this
> configuration? Some kind of dialog- or mconf-based menu?

Yes, it's been proposed many times.  ptxdist might even have it already.
- Dan

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