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Re: [PATCH] chicken-install: Store cache metadata out of the C includep
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felix . winkelmann |
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Re: [PATCH] chicken-install: Store cache metadata out of the C includepath |
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Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:27:12 +0100 |
> Hi,
>
> The attached patch is a follow-up to the fix for
> http://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1753
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> 2f6a72211e37 works around the problem by adding an underscore as a
> prefix to the cache metadata files (VERSION, TIMESTAMP and STATUS).
> While the new names tend to be a bit more unusual than the original
> ones, they are still valid filenames to be included into C/C++ code
> via #include.
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> The attached patch avoids the problem of unintended inclusion altogether
> by storing the cache metadata files into a directory which is not in the
> include path of the C compiler (<cache-dir>/.cache-metadata/<egg>).
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> .cache-metadata is not a valid egg name, so it can be in <cache-dir>
> together with egg directories.
Pushed - thanks!
felix