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Re: CVS conflict avoidance
- To: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: CVS conflict avoidance
- From: jhpb at sarto dot gaithersburg dot md dot us (Joseph H. Buehler)
- Date: 05 Feb 1998 08:59:38 -0500
- References: <19980204232501.32688@dgii.com>
Robert Lipe <robertl@dgii.com> writes:
> We have several files in EGCS that are generated from other files in
> EGCS. These include pairs like configure.in and configure and *-parse.y
> and *-parse.c.
>
> If you are using remote CVS and don't have exactly the same version of
> autoconf or bison or byacc or whatever, the timestamp thing can sneak up
> on you. For example, if we do an update and CVS ships is both parse.c
> and parse.y, CVS guarantees that they'll arrive alphabetically (sigh).
> So *this time*, make will regenerate parse.c from parse.y. Now, say we
...
> Can anyone think of a better way to handle this?
How about renaming the files so alphabetical order is OK?
Joe Buehler