Julian Foad wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 17:55 +0100, Christian Fischer wrote:
>> 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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>>> http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=462&dsMessageId=1097431
>>>
>> 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.
>
> Ah... OK, so the "-nt" operation is non-standard and variable.
>
> Well, isn't the proper solution to use "make" to do this job, instead of
> a manual step in "autogen"? (This is about re-making a target file from
> a source file if it's out of date or doesn't yet exist, which is exactly
> the purpose of "make".) Is there any reason this step needs to be done
> so early in the build process?
Not a deal breaker, but gen-make.py will complain if the referenced header file
doesn't exist. That's why I put this step in autogen.sh before gen-make.py is run.
-Hyrum
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