On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 09:49 -0800, Ed Swierk wrote: > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 6:00 AM, Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> > wrote: > > The automatically generating doesn't actually work. Depending on the > > relative timestamps caused by a SCM checkout, or a tarball extraction, > > the files will be attempted to be regenerated. > > > > These files are regenerated in the XenServer build, simply because of > > their order in the archived tarball. > > When I clone the xen tree from git, the timestamps match about 95% of > the time, but the 5% failure rate was annoying enough that I finally > dug in to fix the parser build. > > IMHO the generated files should be omitted from the source tree; as > long as the source files are actually buildable, there's no reason not > to treat them like any other source file.
There was a point in time where the prevailing version of bison (or maybe flex) in stable distro releases had a bug which meant these files could not be regenerated easily on common distros. I don't recall the details well enough to know if that time has now passed. Perhaps Ian J does. Ian. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
