[PATCH] pidl: Install pidl files corrently.

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Tue Feb 25 08:12:23 MST 2014


On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 04:08:02PM +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> Globbing is a really bad idea in installtion system. One of them is if
> you use patch -b to create a backup, you will end up installing the
> backup file too!
I agree globbing is not ideal. However, if we do this we should
add some code to make sure that this list includes all relevant files.

Since samba itself runs pidl out of tree, we won't notice if somebody adds
a file to pidl and doesn't update this list.

Cheers,

Jelmer


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