the mechanics of unpacking the source for a toolchain

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Dan Kegel wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
 
> >   but what about any of those components already existing in 
> > an exploded directory (good example -- kernel source.)  what do 
> > you do then?
> 
> Assume it's already patched.  This will be the case if
> you're using CVS, say.  Any patches you still need,
> you should apply to your local tree (and scream bloody
> murder until they make it into the CVS tree :-)

wait a minute.  so if one of the source variables points, not to
a tarball, but to an actual directory, you should assume that
directory has already been patched?  why?  i'm not disagreeing,
it's just not clear to me why you'd take this position.

rday


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