Re: build farm failures

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> Michael Meskes wrote:
>> The backend has:
>>
>> $(srcdir)/gram.c: $(srcdir)/parse.h ;
>>
>> $(srcdir)/parse.h: gram.y
>>
>> So except for the different naming it's the same. However, we haven't
>> had that problem with the backend so far, or did we?
>>
>> What do I fail to see?
>
> We have had problems in the past. If the user builds at a point in time
> after the .y file is checked in then the generated file is newer and if
> it's not removed will never be regenerated, even if they do a subsequent
> cvs update.

How do you create the copy of the repo to build? One idea would be to
explicitely skip files that appear on .cvsignore (and maybe croak about
them).

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