Re: [Help-smalltalk] quirk in the build system: overwritespackages.xml

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 19:24 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > Since we're overhauling the PackageLoader, let's do this thing right.  I
> > seem to recall it is because it failed to find a packages.xml file in the
> > parent of the kernel directory... I'll see to fix it in a less hackish way.
> 
> It is easy to do actually.  Since we created packages.xml specially in 
> the dist-hook target, we can create it at configuration time in $srcdir, 
> accounting for the special case of checking out from CVS (which is the 
> only time when you are allowed to write to the srcdir per the current 
> GNU program standards).
> 
> BTW I've now implemented <namespace> and "gst -f", I only have to review 
> the changes from the previous beta before I can roll it.  I'll announce 
> it here and on freshmeat.

Cool!

Rob

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