On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Angus Leeming wrote:
> JMarc> Several problems in cvs: Makefile.am has not been updated with the new
> JMarc> files, form_url.[Ch] have not been added. I am not sure whether I can
> JMarc> safely run make updatesrc to have the files. Angus?
>
> Ahhh! Awake and on the ball as usual, Jean-Marc!
>
> A general point about "make updatesrc":
>
> we (ie Allan!) made the policy decision that we should accept only form_xxx.fd
> and make the .[Ch] files from this. All files in src/frontends/xforms/forms
> conform to this policy and should continue to do so.
While I put my foot down about the mess that people had made of the
${topsrc_dir}/forms it was Jürgen that convinced me (and did most of the
work) to improve fdfix.sh and the makefile so that the files generated by
fdesign could be used directly.
Now all I have to do is convert it to a Makefile.am and then we can always
generate form_xxxx.[Ch] files and remove them from CVS.
> JMarc> Also fdfix.sh does not have correct execute permissions. Does cvs
> JMarc> preserve them?
>
> Someone explained to me that this was a good thing. Prevents the
> unwary messing things up. The argument is less relevant than it was as
> the generated files should now be "good enough" not to need changing.
Ha ha ha ha...
See above.
Actually, Lars' suggestion that it keeps whatever permissions were on the
file when first committed don't seem to fit my experience: I committed
this particular fdfix.sh in both the rae and dialogbase branches with
perms of 750 and it ignored that.
Maybe there is a magic command line parameter for cvs that I haven't
bothered looking for?
Allan. (ARRae)
