Subject: Re: bug#17668: [PATCH] build: be more specific about .git directory before enabling warnings
From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
To: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], Ben Walton <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 18:46:45 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On 06/02/2014 05:31 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/02/2014 02:54 AM, Ben Walton wrote:
>>   * configure.ac: When looking for a .git checkout, restrict it to git
>>     checkouts that contain a coreutils-specific tag.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ben Walton <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>  configure.ac | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
>> index a7a8bfc..96af9be 100644
>> --- a/configure.ac
>> +++ b/configure.ac
>> @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE([gcc-warnings],
>>     # we're running from a git repo, then auto enable the warnings.
>>     gl_gcc_warnings=no
>>     gl_GCC_VERSION_IFELSE([4], [6],
>> -                         [test -d "$srcdir"/.git && gl_gcc_warnings=yes])]
>> +                         [test -f "$srcdir"/.git/refs/tags/v8.22 && gl_gcc_warnings=yes])]
> 
> NACK.  Git can compress tags to reside in other locations than
> .git/refs/tags (run 'git gc --aggressive' for example).  The idea of
> testing for coreutils.git has merit, but you need to come up with a more
> robust test.

Importing the tarball into git for patch management is a
fine and useful thing to do, so we should support that.

We could probably leverage that .tarball-version is only in the tarball.
I'll merge this in and commit in your name:

  test -d "$srcdir"/.git \
  && ! test -f .tarball-version \
  && gl_gcc_warnings=yes

thanks,
Pádraig.