Re: Hack on one of the coreutils programs

[Pádraig Brady]

On 07/06/15 15:01, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 07/06/15 13:17, Tomas Nordin wrote:
>> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 11:00:28PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> On 31/05/15 22:12, Tomas Nordin wrote:
>>>>> Off the top of my head:
>>>>>
>>>>>  git clone --depth=1 git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils.git
>>>>>  cd coreutils
>>>>>  ./bootstrap && ./configure --quiet && make -j$(nproc)
>>>>>  git checkout -b my-branch
>>>>>  vim src/ls.c
>>>>>  make
>>>>>  # make install # to install to /usr/local/... by default
>>>>>  # (which is adjustable with ./configure options).
>>
>> I ran the bootstrap, configure and make one at the time successfully.
>> Just wanted to report that after the make step I get one file generated
>> that becomes reported as untracked by git:
>>
>> $ git status
>> # On branch study
>> # Untracked files:
>> #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
>> #
>> #   lib/stddef.h
>> nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to
>> track)
>>
>> Is that supposed to happen?
> 
> Well spotted. We probably should add something like this
> as a syntax check:
> 
>   { sed -n '/^\/lib\/.*\.h$/{p;p}' .gitignore;
>     find lib -name '*.in*' ! -name '*~' ! -name 'sys_*' |
>       sed 's|^|/|; s|_\(.*in\.h\)|/\1|; s/\.in//'; } |
>   sort | uniq -u
> 
> Which currently suggests adding these to .gitignore:
> 
> /lib/arpa/inet.h
> /lib/errno.h
> /lib/float.h
> /lib/fnmatch.h
> /lib/netinet/in.h
> /lib/pthread.h
> /lib/sched.h
> /lib/se-context.h
> /lib/se-selinux.h
> /lib/stdarg.h
> /lib/stdbool.h
> /lib/stddef.h
> /lib/stdint.h

Pushed at http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=8f2231a

thanks,
Pádraig