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xen-devel
[Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-staging] [xen-unstable] If we find a Linux reposito
On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 15:44 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 22:37 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 12:49 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 15:42 +0100, Xen staging patchbot-unstable wrote:
> > > > # HG changeset patch
> > > > # User Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > # Date 1180968092 -3600
> > > > # Node ID c09dbe98e4d61d29138e8a2918d9ee8a85e1d6cf
> > > > # Parent 5710c94e65394daadafd7a6780450e01a26bf32d
> > > > If we find a Linux repository in $(LINUX_SRC_PATH) then symlink it
> > > > instead of cloning it. This enables developers to keep a linux tree
> > > > separate to their xen repository and to make changes there which are
> > > > picked up by the Xen build.
> > >
> > > I don't like this at all, especially without an environment variable
> > > I can use to disable it. My standard mode of operation is to have a
> > > directory with repos that exactly mirror upstream. To work on code or
> > > apply patches, I clone those and work from there. I don't want the
> > > default to be symlink'ing to my 'pristine' upstream repo copies.
> > > Thanks,
> >
> > export LINUX_SRC_PATH='' should do what you need, no?
>
> Nope, that still gives me a symlink'd linux-2.6.18-xen.hg repo.
Are you sure?
$ ls
COPYING Config.mk.orig Makefile buildconfigs/ config/ extras/
patches/ unmodified_drivers/
Config.mk Config.mk~ README commitmsg~ docs/ install.sh*
tools/ xen/
$ make linux-2.6-xen0-prep
[...snip...]
select-repository: Searching `.:..' for linux-2.6.18-xen.hg
select-repository: Ignoring `.'
select-repository: Found ../linux-2.6.18-xen.hg
Linking ../linux-2.6.18-xen.hg to linux-2.6.18-xen.hg.
$ ls -l
[...snip...]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ianc xendev 22 Jun 4 22:55 linux-2.6.18-xen.hg ->
../linux-2.6.18-xen.hg/
versus (in the same directory)
$ make distclean
$ ls
COPYING Config.mk.orig Makefile buildconfigs/ config/ extras/
patches/ unmodified_drivers/
Config.mk Config.mk~ README commitmsg~ docs/ install.sh*
tools/ xen/
$ LINUX_SRC_PATH='' make linux-2.6-xen0-prep
select-repository: Found http://hg.uk.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg
Cloning http://hg.uk.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg to linux-2.6.18-xen.hg.
$ ls -l
[...snip...]
drwxr-xr-x 3 ianc xendev 72 Jun 4 22:57 linux-2.6.18-xen.hg/
I think you are saying that you have a directory 'working' which is
parented off a pristine '../xen-unstable.hg'. Therefore it should
calculate the parent Linux repository as being '../linux-2.6.18-xen.hg'
and clone that, since it won't find it via LINUX_SRC_PATH which is ''.
Ian.
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