local patches feature

[Yann E. MORIN]

Dann,
All,

Quoting Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>:
> On 2/20/06, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> wrote:
> > Well. "C" seems to be the locale of choice, but unfortunately, some patches
> > were not ordered with the C locale when created, but with some en_* locale
> > (must be en_US, I guess).
> Really?  Got an example?

Yep. Those two files (from the buildroot repos for gcc-3.4.4) are correctly
ordered with en_US (shown below), but are incorrectly ordered with the C
locale:
  601-gcc34-arm-ldm.patch
  601-gcc34-arm-ldm-peephole2.patch

And of course, they won't apply if inversed.

They already are present in the uClibc patch I submitted mid-2005.

> > I think we should try every build possible, using the C locale, and look at
> > those builds which fail. For those, set the locale to en_US, and try them
> > again. For those that still fail, then we have a problem, because we don't
> > know how they possibly were created.
> You scare me :-)

I knew you'd be. ;-]
But we must ensure at least that all _existing_ patches apply fine, with the
locale we choose to enable by default.

> > So the best option IMHO is to use a series file, and fall back to using
> > file sorting for directories that don't have such a file.
> That's what we plan to do.

Yes, I've seen the messages. But I was seconding this.

> > I will have a look at ct-0.40 when I have time (probably tonight (GMT+1)).
> It's not out yet!

Oh. I mis-understood obne of your mail stating 0.40 wasout and a test-bed
before gcc-4.1.0 was there. Will wait, then.

> > Ho, and a stupid question: is it even thinkable to one day have a front-end
> > to crosstool that let's you pick the binutils, the C library, the gcc, the
> > headers (kernel or sanitised), etc..., and outputs the .dat file for this
> > configuration? Some kind of dialog- or mconf-based menu?
> Yes, it's been proposed many times.  ptxdist might even have it already.

Ah. Good. Will look at it.

Bah, so many things crunching me from the top of my head... :-/

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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Yann E. MORIN
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