Re: gawk, subversion, and timestamps

[Andrew J. Schorr]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:09:52PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Mike Owens wrote:
> > So, the question is, what can I do to make gawk build correctly given
> > that subversion screwed up all the mtimes when I imported it?
> 
> There are alternative ways of dealing with this issue.  One is not to
> check into version control generated files.  Generally as a developer
> I prefer that rule best.  But since you are dealing with these as
> upstream vendor branches I can understand your wanting to check in the
> entire thing.

I asked Mike to test the same process with xgawk, and he reports that
it builds fine.  A while ago, we spent some time going through the xgawk
CVS repository and removing all the autogenerated files.  So if you
check out a fresh Savannah gawk-stable tree and compare it to a fresh
xgawk tree, you'll find that we removed many files (as well as
the 'eg' directory).  Here are the ones that seem relevant:

Only in gawk-stable: Makefile.in
Only in gawk-stable: aclocal.m4
Only in gawk-stable: awkgram.c
Only in gawk-stable/awklib: Makefile.in
Only in gawk-stable/awklib: eg
Only in gawk-stable/awklib: stamp-eg
Only in gawk-stable: config.guess
Only in gawk-stable: config.sub
Only in gawk-stable: configh.in
Only in gawk-stable: configure
Only in gawk-stable/doc: Makefile.in
Only in gawk-stable/doc: lflashlight.pdf
Only in gawk-stable/doc: rflashlight.pdf
Only in gawk-stable/doc: statist.pdf
Only in gawk-stable/po: ca.gmo
Only in gawk-stable/po: da.gmo
Only in gawk-stable/po: de.gmo
Only in gawk-stable/po: es.gmo
Only in gawk-stable/po: fr.gmo
Only in gawk-stable/po: ga.gmo
Only in gawk-stable/po: he.gmo
Only in gawk-stable/po: it.gmo
Only in gawk-stable/po: ja.gmo
Only in gawk-stable/po: nl.gmo
Only in gawk-stable/po: pl.gmo
Only in gawk-stable/po: pt_BR.gmo
Only in gawk-stable/po: ro.gmo
Only in gawk-stable/po: rw.gmo
Only in gawk-stable/po: sv.gmo
Only in gawk-stable/po: tr.gmo
Only in gawk-stable/po: vi.gmo
Only in gawk-stable/test: Makefile.in
Only in gawk-stable/test: Maketests
Only in gawk-stable: version.c

In addition, we developed .cvsignore files for each directory.
So this could be a resource if it were desired to prune the
Savannah gawk-stable tree.

Regards,
Andy