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Re: svn commit: r13115 - trunk/build/ac-macros

From: Max Bowsher <maxb_at_ukf.net>
Date: 2005-03-02 17:52:49 CET

Philip Martin wrote:
> maxb@tigris.org writes:
>
>> Author: maxb
>> Date: Tue Feb 22 14:17:26 2005
>> New Revision: 13115
>>
>> Modified:
>> trunk/build/ac-macros/svn-macros.m4
>> Log:
>> * build/ac-macros/svn-macros.m4 (SVN_CONFIG_NICE): Prefix the
>> reinvocation of
>> configure with "exec" - this makes the config.nice file itself be
>> closed,
>> before configure attempts to rewrite it - this matters on Cygwin.
>
> I don't like this change. In the past when I ran:
>
> $ ../svn/configure ...
>
> the generated config.nice script contained:
>
> "../svn/configure"
>
> Now the generated config.nice contains
>
> exec "../svn/configure"
>
> and when run it gets regenerated containing an absolute path
>
> exec "/home/pm/sw/subversion/obj/../svn/configure"
>
> The absolute path is a problem, I don't want to invoke configure with
> an absolute path as it has knock on effects, in particular it appears
> in the debug information.
>
> If Cygwin needs the exec then please make it Cygwin specific and don't
> impose it on the rest of us.

Fair enough, but please note that Cygwin doesn't perform this
absolutification, so this is the first I've heard about it. Will
conditionalize.

Max.

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