svn is broken [was: Re: [PATCH] store --help messages in compressed form. saves 35k]

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 03:52:42PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
>On Friday 05 May 2006 2:09 pm, Jason Schoon wrote:
>> > I'd be surprised if it would build out of tree for you but not for me.
>> > Did you actually try the sequence i did show?
>> > Just set src=/there/are/the/sources/of/busybox  and invoke the standard
>> > sequence as in my previous mail.
>>
>> Okay, you just answered my question.  I'm not trying to build out of tree,
>> that would explain it.
>
>It's the Rules.mak part of svn 14960, and I have _no_idea_ what that patch is 

>From the looks, usage.c wants to #include "bb_config.h" (via busybox.h),
but it is compiled as

--- trunk/busybox/Makefile	2006/04/26 10:10:25	14943
+++ trunk/busybox/Makefile	2006/04/27 23:34:46	14949
@@ -405,6 +405,13 @@
 	$(Q)$(top_srcdir)/scripts/config/mkconfigs > $@
 endif
 
+scripts/usage: $(top_srcdir)/scripts/usage.c .config
+	$(HOSTCC) $(HOSTCFLAGS) -I$(top_srcdir)/include -o $@ $<
+
+DEP_INCLUDES += include/usage_compressed.h
+include/usage_compressed.h: .config scripts/usage
+	$(Q)sh $(top_srcdir)/scripts/usage_compressed
"$(top_srcdir)/scripts" > $@
+
 depend dep: .depend
 .depend: scripts/bb_mkdep $(DEP_INCLUDES)
 	$(disp_gen)


So it naturally fails to find bb_config.h which lives in the
$(top_builddir)/include

I didn't look how 14960 could possibly have causes this breakage,
though, and TBH i don't quite see how 14960 comes into play either.

>trying to accomplish.  Would someone care to enlighten me?
>
>Rob
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