On 11/09/2011 06:47 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 05:37:19PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
Commit f7bd00c12 pulled in a gnulib module that fails to compile on mingw. While it would be nice to pull in a newer version of .gnulib that fixes this, it is difficult to backport any .gnulib update to older releases. So, it makes sense to take advantage of gnulib-tool's ability to support local diffs, where we can apply specific diffs in our use of gnulib without waiting for upstream gnulib to pick up those changes, as well as avoiding a wholesale .gnulib update. The existence of local diffs will also make it easier to backport fixes against a tarball (as long as a tarball and libvirt.git share the same .gnulib commit, then the tarball can be patched by applying the same local diffs as a post-release libvirt.git commit, without having to rerun an entire gnulib-tool bootstrap).
This patch introduces the framework for supporting local diffs, without actually introducing any.
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Now pushed. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org