Re: [PATCH 00/22] Towards a non-recursive build system for coreutils?

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 08/30/2012 12:10 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> On 08/30/2012 01:14 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> Thanks for all the work.
>>>
>>> Would you please mail to me (or to the list) the concatenation of those
>>> patches
> 
> Thanks again.  I've begun looking at these changes, so here's
> some preliminary feedback.
> 
> As expected, the build now seems faster.
> I haven't yet measured it.
>
IMHO, a proper measurement will be appropriate only once 'src/' has been
merged into the top-level as well.

> I've had to make a few changes:
> 
>     - "make distcheck" failed due to a typo in man/local.mk.
>     I fixed that by s,dir/,man/, below.
>
Oops.  I should have run a "make dist" at least ("make distcheck" fails
for me even on the master branch, so I didn't run it, although I tried
a VPATH build).

>     - "make syntax-check" failed due to a long line and to a TAB
>     followed by 8 spaces.  To address the long line, rather than
>     splitting the just-lengthened line, I preferred to factor out
>     this definition:
> 
>       texi_files = $(srcdir)/doc/*.texi
>
OTOH, I had seen this, and I thought I had fixed it.  I must have lost
the patch in the reshuffling and rebasing ...  Sorry for the confusion.

Thanks,
  Stefano