On Monday 27 June 2005 04:34, Werner Almesberger wrote: > I wrote: > > In quilt 0.40, if QUILT_PATCHES contains an absolute path name, > > [...] > > After having had a closer look, I realized that using an absolute > path in QUILT_PATCHES also breaks the top-level directory discovery. > Fortunately, quilt falls back to just requiring that we run it from > the top-level directory, which is what I'm doing anyway. > > I wonder if it wouldn't be better to change the mechanism to look > for $dir/patches and $dir/.pc, and to stop the search when either > is found.
Some projects already contain ``patches'' directories, so in that case QUILT_PATCHES can be changed to something else, for example, QUILT_PATCHES=px. We want to keep that feature. I don't immediately recall the reason for not searching for .pc directories. Maybe I'll remember later. > That way, an absolute path in QUILT_PATCHES wouldn't be a problem, > and one could easily have a common patches repository for multiple > trees, without needing to put a symlink in each of them. I'm wondering if this really is a big deal? It's by definition a working tree anyway... Cheers, Andreas _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
