Re: NT porting gotcha

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Greg Hudson wrote:

> Er, sorry, I think I wasn't clear. I was actually thinking about how the
> emacs build system tars up its lisp directory and dumps it into the
> target area. (Not a very good practice, but oh well.) The build system
> "knows" about RCS directories and removes them from the destination area,
> and it could be taught to "know" about CVS and SVN directories as well...
> but that won't work if the SVN directory name could be different.

Just a reflection:

If there would be some known file name in that "SVN" directory, install
scripts and similar might be able to scan just one dir down in the target
directory to search for a possibly renamed SVN-directory...

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