Re: stuff for hhh

Brian Alliet <[email protected]> writes:
>>  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).

Er, I meant the "meta-makefiles"... the ones we write.


>> 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.

The presence of the final binary -- upstream/install/bin/$(target)-gcc.


>> 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.

Yeah, but com.caucho.filters.RewriteFilter is perfecter.

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