X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 10:01:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com cc: Richard Quadling Subject: Re: Some pointers required on log file examination. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <10845a340604040128k14627ef8h869a937d943e94d0@mail.gmail.com> <10845a340604040640n317cafbr20c1b190539241c2@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: > Earlier, I wrote (regarding firing off the build once some number of files > have changed): > > > FWIW, a slightly better way of structuring your make is to remember the > > date/time of the last make (as a timestamp on a file, perhaps), and > > simply compare CVS as of that date/time with the HEAD. If the HEAD has > > certain properties (some particular files changed, the number of changed > > files is greater than some threshold, etc), then fire off a checkout and > > the build. > > On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Richard Quadling wrote: > > > Thanks for that. I'd not thought of using the CVS itself. > > Living and learning. > > It would be nice to quote at least some relevant part of the message > you're replying to, just to set the context for people seeing this thread > for the first time. > > Also, a small clarification: when I said "compare CVS as of that > date/time", I did not mean the repository itself, but the "cvs" command. ^ output of the appropriate Sorry, that's what I get for firing off emails in a hurry. > In your case, if you only do the checkout whenever you do the make, using > "cvs -n checkout" should suffice -- just examine the output of that. > E.g., something like (untested): > > cvs -qn checkout > log && \ > [ `wc -l log` -ge 50 -o `grep -F -c -f IMPORTANT_FILES log` -gt 0 ] && \ > cvs -q checkout && make > > where IMPORTANT_FILES is a file that contains the list of files changes to > which should kick off the build no matter what, one per line, with a 'U ' > in front of it (to simulate cvs output). > Igor HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/