WAF 2.x upgrade for 4.10

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2018-09-04 at 10:18 +0300, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> On ti, 04 syys 2018, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2018-09-03 at 17:10 +0300, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> > > 
> > > On su, 02 syys 2018, Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Sun, 2018-09-02 at 11:14 +0200, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 2 сентября 2018 г. 11:09:30 GMT+02:00, Andrew Bartlett
> > > > > <abartlet@
> > > > > samb
> > > > > a.org> пишет:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > Any update on when we can expect this?  I'm keen to do some
> > > > > > review
> > > > > > on
> > > > > > it and have it merged before it suffers from even more
> > > > > > rebase
> > > > > > hell. 
> > > > > >  
> > > > > Hi Andrew,
> > > > > 
> > > > > I do have a git master  rebase as of this morning. I stuck at
> > > > > Vienna
> > > > > airport since yesterday due to Austrian airlines flight
> > > > > cancellations
> > > > > and right now I'm in a second attempt to get back to Finland.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Expect an update on Monday my time.
> > > > Great, thanks!
> > > https://gitlab.com/samba-team/devel/samba/pipelines/29270067 runs
> > > the
> > > current state of those changes. I had to add couple more fixes:
> > > 
> > >  - lib/mscat/wscript needed a typical change to get access to
> > > Logs
> > >    module
> > > 
> > >  - script/autobuild.py assumed internal knowledge about WAF's
> > > cache
> > > file
> > >    name. We used to change it to <target>.cache.py while since
> > > 2011
> > > it
> > >    always been <target>_cache.py in WAF. An update reverted it
> > > back
> > > to
> > >    the original so I took time to discover CACHE_SUFFIX value in
> > > runtime
> > >    instead of using a hard-coded value.
> > Great.  Do you think it is time to make a merge request?  That
> > would
> > give a good place to collect some more comments and track it.
> Yep, at least, the comments will be easier to find than commenting
> directly on the branch.
> 
> https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba/merge_requests/62

Thanks!  It also allows an easy way to get the patch, as every merge
request can be appended with .patch to get the patches ready for 'git
am'.

Andrew Bartlett

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