Re: Install issues

["H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:51:23 +0100, Miklos Vajna
<vmiklos@frugalware.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 05:31:01PM +0100, "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > --- Makefile.org	2008-11-10 17:29:53.000000000 +0100
> > +++ Makefile	2008-11-10 17:29:39.000000000 +0100
> > @@ -1329,6 +1329,10 @@ check-sha1:: test-sha1$X
> >  	./test-sha1.sh
> >  
> >  check: common-cmds.h
> > +	@`sparse </dev/null 2>/dev/null` || (\
> > +	    echo "The 'sparse' command is not available, so I cannot make the 'check' target" ;\
> > +	    echo "Did you mean 'make test' instead?" ;\
> > +	    exit 1 )
> >  	for i in *.c; do sparse $(ALL_CFLAGS) $(SPARSE_FLAGS) $$i || exit; done
> 
> Please read Documentation/SubmittingPatches, your patch lacks a signoff
> and a commit message.

You're not making things easier for people that do not use git from a
git repo, something that happens quite a lot when you build from a
released tarball.

git-1.6.0.4 $ git format-patch -M
fatal: Not a git repository
Exit 128

I don't like this at all. How much more work is it for you to add the
subject and sign-off yourself, instead of requiring that from people
that like to help?

In the perl development, the only thing we *require* is a diff that
either uses unified (preferred) or context diff.

I did follow the ideal patch flow so far:
--8<---
An ideal patch flow

Here is an ideal patch flow for this project the current maintainer
suggests to the contributors:

 (0) You come up with an itch.  You code it up.

 (1) Send it to the list and cc people who may need to know about
     the change.
-->8---

Code speaks louder than words, so I proposed a patch.
This might be my last patch. git is not just another project I want to
loose so much time in.

--8<---
Author: H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
Date:   Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:31:01 +0100

    Make check needs sparse. If sparse is not available, it might as
    well be a user error who really wanted make test.

Signed-off-by: H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
---

diff --git a/Makefile.org b/Makefile
index becd008..718ddf2 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1329,6 +1329,10 @@ check-sha1:: test-sha1$X
        ./test-sha1.sh

 check: common-cmds.h
+       @`sparse </dev/null 2>/dev/null` || (\
+           echo "The 'sparse' command is not available, so I cannot make the 'check' target" ;\
+           echo "Did you mean 'make test' instead?" ;\
+           exit 1 )
        for i in *.c; do sparse $(ALL_CFLAGS) $(SPARSE_FLAGS) $$i || exit; done

 remove-dashes:
-->8---

-- 
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