Re: stuff for hhh

On Mar 9, 2004, at 7:14 AM, Adam Megacz wrote:

> First off, don't forget HHH tomorrow, TWO HOURS LATER than usual.
> Yay.

I'll be there.

>  The Makefiles have the required patches *built in*
> (using <<EOF).

Thats fine for small patches, but it falls apart when you have to patch 
an autoconf script (which we do in mips2java for newlib and xwt for the 
boehm-gc patch).

> I'd like to avoid the .configure_* / .download_* / .install_* stuff
> (and the corresponding mips2java tasks/*)

That certainly is ugly. I don't really see how we can avoid it though. 
What if gcc blows up halfway though the compile? You need some way to 
record that the build actually did complete.

> I can play a cool trick to map the "entire darcs space" to either:

BTW, if you ever go back to Apache, mod_rewrite is *perfect* for this 
kind of stuff.

Everything else in your message looks pretty reasonable.

-Brian