[Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-staging] [xen-unstable] If we find a Linux repository in $(LINUX_SRC_PATH) then symlink it

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 12:49 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 15:42 +0100, Xen staging patchbot-unstable wrote:
> > # HG changeset patch
> > # User Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > # Date 1180968092 -3600
> > # Node ID c09dbe98e4d61d29138e8a2918d9ee8a85e1d6cf
> > # Parent  5710c94e65394daadafd7a6780450e01a26bf32d
> > If we find a Linux repository in $(LINUX_SRC_PATH) then symlink it
> > instead of cloning it. This enables developers to keep a linux tree
> > separate to their xen repository and to make changes there which are
> > picked up by the Xen build.
> 
>    I don't like this at all, especially without an environment variable
> I can use to disable it.  My standard mode of operation is to have a
> directory with repos that exactly mirror upstream.  To work on code or
> apply patches, I clone those and work from there.  I don't want the
> default to be symlink'ing to my 'pristine' upstream repo copies.
> Thanks,

export LINUX_SRC_PATH='' should do what you need, no?

Ian.



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