Scope Checking Patch

[Markus Deuling]

Rob Quill wrote:
> On 11/06/07, Markus Deuling <deuling@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Hi Rob,
>>
>> I haven't gone through your patch, but I have a suggestion. If I do a 
>> patch for GDB I do it like that:
>>
>> a) Checkout current head
>> b) Create a copy of that directory e.g. gdb.new
>> c) Do my changes in gdb.new
>> d) Create patch by: diff -urN gdb/ gdb.new/ > diff-file
> 
> Thanks. I tried this, but I ended up with a 214MB diff file. I'm not
> sure why this is, as I did a make distclean on both copies, I think it
> may be due to the testsuite results not having been cleaned or
> something. Does anyone have any ideas what to do?

Hm, I think I haven't pointed it out clearly. Lets assume following directory structure:

gdb-6.6/  <- extract gdb-6.6.tar.bz2
gdb.dev/  <- copy of gdb-6.6/
gdb.dev/build <- directory in which you configure & build gdb
gdb.dev/gdb <- source tree where you do your changes
gdb-6.6/gdb <- original gdb source tree

You do a patch now with following command:
diff -urN gdb-6.6/gdb/ gdb.dev/gdb > diff-file

What you should do is to compare ONLY the source tree in gdb/ directories.


To configure & build gdb:
cd gdb.dev/
mkdir build
cd build/
../configure --disable-werror
make

You should always build GDB in a directory separate from source directory.


-- 
Markus Deuling
GNU Toolchain for Linux on Cell BE
deuling@de.ibm.com