Ugly little hack for snapshot problem

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 05:20:31PM -0400, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> Now I've got a third idea.  It's simple:
> 
>     src-release walks the tree and configures all the subdirs ...
>     src-release walks the tree and makes 'distclean ...'
>   + src-release calls 'rm -f dejagnu/example/calc/config.status'
> 
> Advantages:
> 
>   It's very easily seen to be correct.
>   It's very easily seen not to touch anything except src-release.
>   It patches src-release, not dejagnu, so it doesn't get wiped
>     by a dejagnu import.
>   I can stick a comment in there so that if dejagnu evers gets fixed,
>     and we import a new dejagnu, the kludge can go away soon after that.

Sounds fine.  Could use it for intl too.

> Disadvantages:
> 
>   It's ugly.
>   The top-level MAINTAINERS file does not say who owns 'src-release'.
> 
> Like the cliche says: "if it's stupid, and it works, it isn't stupid."
> 
> How about it?

GDB and binutils own src-release.  As far as I'm concerned, it's
reasonable; let's see what others say.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer