On 30.09.2011 21:24, Mathias Bauer wrote: > On 28.09.2011 17:32, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> Another advantage of unpacking the tarballs: the patches will become > *real* patches that just contain changes of the original source code. > Often the patches nowadays contain additional files that we just need to > build the stuff in OOo (e.g. dmake makefiles) - they could be checked in > as regular files. > > Currently keeping them as regular files is awkward because then they > need to be copied to the place the tarballs are unpacked to. but this is just because dmake can only build source files in the same directory; imagine a more flexible gbuild external build target where the makefiles are in the source tree while the tarball gets unpacked in the workdir... > Regards, > Mathias >
