Re: [gpsd-dev] Working towards 3.10 release

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <address@hidden>:
> scons -c is still leaving a lot of stuff that I expect to get deleted.
> 
> after scons -c:
> address@hidden gpsd2]$ ll -R .sc*
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 murray murray      0 Nov  7 20:36 .scons-option-cache
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 murray murray 153360 Nov  7 20:36 .sconsign.dblite
> 
> .sconf_temp:
> total 296
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 murray murray   79 Nov  6 09:22 conftest_0.c
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 murray murray  924 Nov  6 09:22 conftest_0.o
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 murray murray 7309 Nov  6 09:22 conftest_0
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 murray murray   79 Nov  6 09:22 conftest_1.c
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 murray murray  924 Nov  6 09:22 conftest_1.o
> ....

Those are scons state files.  If I try to delete them from with scons, 
various postconditions fail and havoc ensues.  (One version of the 
havoc was the carnivorous config bug.)  Sorry, I did try.
 
> It also misses www/*.html

I've sort of fixed that. There's now a 'distclean' target that does an
ordinary clean, then removes lingering test binaries, then a
web-directory clean.  The only things it leaves in place are the
scons state files.

> I've got two different copies of www/cycle.png
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 murray murray 12690 Oct 31 16:12 gpsd/www/cycle.png
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 murray murray 11626 Nov  2 22:58 gpsd2/www/cycle.png
> 
> I've never run scons in gpsd.  It is just a clean reference to see what scons 
> -c is leaving behind.
> 
> The newer one looks better.  The text for RTIME is mangled in the older one.
> The older one came from git.
> I see a www/cycle.dia and I had to install dia to run scons www so I assume 
> the newer one came from scons www as run on my system.  (The time stamps 
> match the html files.)
> 
> I don't know what you are trying to do.  I'd expect either cycle.png wouldn't 
> be in git or it wouldn't get created by scons www.   The latter would be 
> handy for users like me so dia isn't required but it makes life harder for 
> you to release a new cycle.dia.

It's the result of a mess that's too tedious to explain.  I'll clean it up,
probably by geetting rid of the diagram.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>