[csw-maintainers] cannot set overrides for Emacs: please review

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Peter,

Am 26.05.2012 um 18:31 schrieb Peter FELECAN:
> "Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:
>> 2012/5/25 Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org>
>>> Excerpts from pfelecan's message of Fri May 25 09:59:50 -0400 2012:
>>>> I'm approaching the end of the GARification for Emacs. However I'm stuck
>>>> with 5 overrides which are not taken into account eventough they are
>>>> explicited in the recipe.
>>> 
>>> After modifying overrides, you need to run: mgar remerge
>>> 
>>> The merge step generates the overrides file and it needs to be rebuilt
>>> after any change.
>> 
>> That's the most common typical problem.
>> 
>> Dago, even when GAR doesn't regenerate the overrides during repackage
>> stage, could it at least detect that there's a problem?
> 
> But, but, it displays a great "merge" banner... my logs are available in
> ~pfelecan/logs/emacs

This is an unfortunate bug that some minor parts of merge are executed doing
repackage. I have not found the reason yet as debugging recursive rule
invocations in make is quite difficult.


Best regards

  -- Dago