Re: [RFC+PATCH 1/1] Move SCM interoperability tools into scm/

Ryan Anderson [off-list ref] writes:

Comments on a way to make the Makefile less repetitive would be
appreciated, though.

One obvious way would be not to have scm/Makefile but have the
dependencies in the main Makefile to say (the moral equivalent
of):

	git-archimport.perl: scm/git-archimport.perl

Junio C Hamano wrote:

Ryan Anderson [off-list ref] writes:

  

quoted

Comments on a way to make the Makefile less repetitive would be
appreciated, though.
    

One obvious way would be not to have scm/Makefile but have the
dependencies in the main Makefile to say (the moral equivalent
of):

	git-archimport.perl: scm/git-archimport.perl
  

I think that doing that means I still need to duplicate the  actual
build rules, which is what I was hoping to avoid, as they encode all the
magic "path replacement" logic in multiple places.

On the other hand, I can fix *that*, if I break the ability to run in
the build directory, which is bad in its own way.  (Fixing the tests
should be a matter of adapting the test library slightly, I think.)

For the time being, I'm going with ugly, but less disruptive, and I'm
willing/planning on revisiting it when things shake out a bit more.


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Ryan Anderson
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