Do we want ./waf dist?

2017-12-23 Thread Hal Murray via devel
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Re: Python libs on Debian/Raspbian

2017-12-23 Thread Fred Wright via devel
On Sat, 23 Dec 2017, Hal Murray wrote: > > but isn't when compiled extensions like 'ntpc' are involved. Extensions > > almost never work with a different Python that the one they were compiled > > and linked for, with a variety of possible failure modes. > > Should ntpc.so get installed in the A

Re: ./waf install is not idempotent?

2017-12-23 Thread Fred Wright via devel
On Sat, 23 Dec 2017, Jason Azze via devel wrote: > On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 5:47 PM, Hal Murray wrote: > > > >> I ran a ./waf distclean before my configure, build, install steps. I will > >> try from a fresh clone. > > > >> Before I open a GitLab issue, is this unexpected behavior? > > > > It sure

Re: Python libs on Debian/Raspbian

2017-12-23 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> but isn't when compiled extensions like 'ntpc' are involved. Extensions > almost never work with a different Python that the one they were compiled > and linked for, with a variety of possible failure modes. Should ntpc.so get installed in the ARCH dir rather than the normal dir? -- These a

Re: Python libs on Debian/Raspbian

2017-12-23 Thread Fred Wright via devel
On Wed, 20 Dec 2017, Richard Laager via devel wrote: > Rather than debate hypotheticals further, I have submitted a merge > request to implement the "option H" idea being discussed: > https://gitlab.com/NTPsec/ntpsec/merge_requests/615 > > I'm looking for feedback on that particular merge request

ntpd/varsion.h

2017-12-23 Thread Hal Murray via devel
Should it be included in a tarball? How about wafhelpers/.autorevision-cache? Should it be moved to $build/main/ntpd/, similar to the way that derived python files were moved to $build/main/pylib/? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ deve

Re: ./waf install is not idempotent?

2017-12-23 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> A bunch of stuff in the packaging directory under SUSE and RPM, and this: > ./pylib/version.py:VCS_TAG = "NTPsec_0_9_7" > ./pylib/version.py:VERSION = "0.9.7" That's another symptom of our overall development process leaving cruft around. That stuff was moved to $build/main/pylib/ quite a whil

Re: ./waf install is not idempotent?

2017-12-23 Thread Jason Azze via devel
On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 5:47 PM, Hal Murray wrote: > >> I ran a ./waf distclean before my configure, build, install steps. I will >> try from a fresh clone. > >> Before I open a GitLab issue, is this unexpected behavior? > > It sure looks unexpected to me. There shouldn't be anything about 0.9.7

Re: ./waf install is not idempotent?

2017-12-23 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> So . . . I just kept running ./waf install, and I think it just cycles > through these three modes: > 1) installs ntpq 0.9.7 > 2) Python error 3) > installs ntpq 1.0.1+183 > I ran a ./waf distclean before my configure, build, install steps. I will > try from a fresh clone. > Before I open a Gi

./waf install is not idempotent?

2017-12-23 Thread Jason Azze via devel
While freshening my NTPsec install to test the ntpq command history bug, I accidentally ran ./waf install twice in a row because I thought I had forgotten to run it at all. I thought I had forgotten because ntpq -V still showed my old version 0.9.7+68. On the second run, (which at the moment I tho

Re: Does ntpq have a command line history mechanism?

2017-12-23 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> root@protactinium:/home/jazze/code/ntpsec# ntpq -V ntpq ntpsec-0.9.7+68 > 2017-03-31T08:38:03Z Thanks. The remove import change was late Dec 2016. Looks like bisect time. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel mailing list devel@nt

Re: Does ntpq have a command line history mechanism?

2017-12-23 Thread Jason Azze via devel
On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 3:24 PM, Eric S. Raymond via devel wrote: > > This is highly annoying. We've done someting in our interpreter that busts > that feature, but it is not obvious what. Perhaps the polyglot changes? > > I'll dig into this further when I get back from sword class > -- > I hap

Re: Does ntpq have a command line history mechanism?

2017-12-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Matthew Selsky via devel : > On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 06:42:00AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond via devel wrote: > > Hal Murray via devel : > > > > > > I was expecting one, but I get things like this: > > > ntpq> ^[[A^[[A^[[B > > > ***Command `' ambiguous > > > ntpq> > > > > > > That was up-arrow, up-arr