253691 - add "dependentLibs.h" to global cvsignore

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(mozilla.org :: CVS: Administration, task)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

We need to add add "dependentLibs.h" to the global cvsignore file.

Comment 1

[Henrik Gemal]

mitchell: could you fix this one by adding "dependentLibs.h" to the global
cvsignore? Thanx

Comment 2

[David G King]

Not H/W or O/S dependent.

Comment 3

[Artur Polaczynski]

Or maybe [change|add] 81 .cvsignore files?

I can create script (not diff) to produce something like this:

touch 'mozilla/accessible/build/.cvsignore';echo
dependentLibs.h>>'mozilla/accessible/build/.cvsignore'                         
                               
touch 'mozilla/ipc/ipcd/client/src/.cvsignore';echo
dependentLibs.h>>'mozilla/ipc/ipcd/client/src/.cvsignore'                      
                            

Comment 4

[Henrik Gemal]

could someone please fix this one by adding "dependentLibs.h" to the global
cvsignore?

Comment 5

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

--> CVS: Administration

Comment 6

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Why is this bug assigned to Build & Release ? Please update with more info.

Comment 7

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Because Build & Release gets to decide if this will be done or not, and needs to provide instructions how to do it if it's not something you can do yourselves.

Comment 8

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Henrik, if you had actually done a comment 0 that explained what *and* why with STR, would it have been something like:

"""
When you do srcdir builds, instead of objdir, you wind up with (a whole lot of/81) files named dependentLibs.h spread throughout your tree, which are then annoying when you (update your tree/do full dir diffs).

STR:
1. Check out a tree, and set up a .mozconfig without a MOZ_OBJDIR
2. make -f client.mk build
3a. make -f client.mk checkout, and watch for ton of "? foo/dependentLibs.h"
3b. cvs diff -up8 foo/, and look at the "? dependentLibs.h" at the top
"""

Is that the problem (which none of the people who can fix it have ever had, apparently, which is why they've ignored your context-free demand for three years) that you want to solve?

If so, judging by bug 349140, you need to get approval from someone like shaver or maybe bsmedberg, since it's less about Build & Release than it's about Build Config, and *then* get justdave to do it, since apparently CVSROOT/cvsignore is rather restricted. 

Comment 9

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Please just use an objdir, which we'll be requiring in short order.