Re: udev-067 and 2.6.12?

[David Brown <dmlb2000@gmail.com>]

On 8/18/05, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> 
> A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post
> Q: Were do I find info about this thing called top-posting?
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> A: Top-posting.
> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
> 
> A: No.
> Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?

Sorry I'll try not to do that any more ;-)

> So you install a new version of udev and don't kill the old udevd
> program?  That's not good at all.  Remember, if you set DEST_DIR, that
> doesn't get called.  That is there to allow you to build and not mess
> with any running services (as is needed on rpm and deb build machines.)

I'll mention this to the other developers and see what they think... I
inherited this diff from previous versions of the package (going back
to 04x iirc) it may need another look if it's needed.
 
> That's not how you build things in the extras directory (as per the
> documentation.)
> 
> Did you try:
>         make USE_LOG=true EXTRAS="extras/run_directory"
> ?  That should work just fine, and if not, please let us know.  There's
> a script in the test directory that builds everything with all options
> to determine if we break anything.  Have you tried that?

Ah, yes thanks that does work.  I must have misread the RELEASE-NOTES... :-\
Maybe adding back-ticks could make that line seem more like 'this is
the exact command to execute.'  (just a suggestion)
I'll be sure to fix this thanks...

> Ok, and as I don't think you are building things correctly, I don't
> think this patch is needed :)

Yes agreed thanks for the help :)

Thanks
- David Brown


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