[PATCH] fix various build problems
Jeremy Allison
jra at samba.org
Tue Oct 28 14:14:52 MDT 2014
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 08:56:51PM +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:45:00PM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 08:35:05PM +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 06:28:19PM +0100, Michael Adam wrote:
> > > > Attached is a patch to fix this problem.
> > > > It does so by filtering out the standard directories.
> > > > It uses ${CC} -print-search-dirs to build
> > > > the list of standard lib dirs. At least gcc and clang
> > > > support this.
> > > Thanks for working on this!
> > >
> > > > The patch may need some more changes, because it
> > > > currently touches wafadmin to filter the standard paths.
> > > We should really avoid changing wafadmin. Any changes would be lost when
> > > we next pull in a new version of waf.
> >
> > If we can, we should. But if we've sent a
> > patch upstream I don't think it's an unforgivable
> > sin to change our downstream version whilst
> > waiting for an upstream patched version.
>
> That would mean forcing people to use third_party/ for any library
> in which we have made changes that have not been upstreamed yet. That
> goes against the philosophy of third_party, which is there just for those
> on platforms without package managers or outdated packages.
>
> This is a patch for which we *can* avoid patching wafadmin. Patching
> wafsamba rather than wafadmin might be slightly more work in the short term,
> but makes our life easier in the future when we don't have to do complex
> merges when we update our copy of waf.
Fair enough. If we *can* avoid patching wafadmin, we certainly should !
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