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Re: Fwd: Possible bug in build-system

From: Christian Fischer <Christian.Fischer_at_HOOD-Group.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:55:11 +0100

Julian Foad schrieb:
> On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 09:38 -0600, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
>
>> Mark Phippard wrote:
>>
>>> Forwarding from users@
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Christian Fischer <Christian.Fischer_at_hood-group.com>
>>> Date: Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:05 AM
>>> Subject: Possible bug in build-system
>>> To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello all!
>>>
>>> I tried to co and compile the current subversion rev35640.
>>> While running autogen.sh I discovered an error regarding a missing file:
>>>
>>> WARNING: "rep-cache-db.sql.h" header not found, file
>>> subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/rep-cache.c
>>>
>>> As autogen.sh also ./configure does not fail explicitly. But make does.
>>> So I tried a earlier revision and isolated revision 35542 (42..hrhr) as
>>> first version throwing the error.
>>>
>>> BUT: You will never discover the bug, if you are updating your wc from
>>> an earlier version (and run autogen.sh before) - here is why:
>>> In autogen.sh those headerfile will be updated if the rep-cache-db.sql
>>> file has changed.
>>> Revisions =<35541 are also generating these header file - or simply
>>> running always the responsible python scripts. (see below)
>>>
>>> I added "if not existent" and now it works like a charm!
>>>
>>> Sincerely
>>> Christian Fischer
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Index: autogen.sh
>>> ===================================================================
>>> --- autogen.sh (revision 35541)
>>> +++ autogen.sh (revision 35542)
>>> @@ -112,7 +112,11 @@
>>> fi
>>>
>>> # Transform sql files into header files
>>> -$PYTHON build/transform_sql.py subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/rep-cache-db.sql
>>> +for file in subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/rep-cache-db.sql; do
>>> + if test $file -nt $file.h; then
>>> + $PYTHON build/transform_sql.py $file
>>> + fi
>>> +done
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Index: autogen.sh
>>> ===================================================================
>>> --- autogen.sh (revision 35640)
>>> +++ autogen.sh (working copy)
>>> @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
>>>
>>> # Transform sql files into header files
>>> for file in subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/rep-cache-db.sql; do
>>> - if test $file -nt $file.h; then
>>> + if (test $file -nt $file.h) || !(test -e $file.h); then
>>> $PYTHON build/transform_sql.py $file
>>> fi
>>> done
>>>
>> What shell are you using? I did a fresh checkout from trunk, ran autogen.sh and
>> configure, and didn't have any problem. rep-cache.sql.h was created as expected.
>>
>> That being said, it don't think that it hurts to have this patch included.
>>
>
> A bit of research...
>
> The "-nt" test is not standard in the "test" utility, according to
> <http://www.qnxclub.net/files/articles/unix03/utilities/test.html>
> (search for "-nt" on that page). Sorry about that: I put that there.
>
> It is commonly available as part of the "[ ... ]" shell built-in alias
> for "test"... but I'm not sure how standard that is.
>
> However, when the "-nt" test is available, its definition (quoting from
> my "Bash" manual) is:
>
> file1 -nt file2
> True if file1 is newer (according to modification date)
> than file2, or if file1 exists and file2 does not.
>
> So, if the test is wrongly failing on the original poster's system, I'm
> not sure that the "or not exists..." patch is the right solution, even
> though it works in the case where the file is missing.
>
> - Julian
>
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>

Me again :)

Please keep in mind, there are partial differences in the *sh
implementation.
Your quote is from bash. My "man sh" says:

            file1 -nt file2
                          True if file1 and file2 exist and file1 is newer
                          than file2.

autogen.sh says #!/bin/sh

In your case probably /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/bash - so it works.

Sincerely

-- 
Christian Fischer
mobile: 0049 176 6100 3450
Christian.Fischer_at_HOOD-Group.com
http://www.HOOD-Group.com <http://www.hood-group.com/>
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