Friday, March 4, 2011

Re: To be strange or not to be strange...?

Hi Benjamin,


Benjamin R. Haskell <vim@benizi.com> [11-03-04 19:20]:
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
>
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >I want to rebuild vim patch by patch starting with the source of the
> >vim version, which was that one which receives patch 7.3.001.
> >
> >I thought that version was 7.2.446.
>
> Hmm. Not entirely sure. The Mercurial repository seems not to have an
> "updated for version 7.3.001" log message:
> http://code.google.com/p/vim/source/list?r=f0915ae869cf7f143b7bb1a8c24b581f5e3a0909&r=0c1e413c32f1f3f8e28ebf8a030cedeeb664cd46
>
> And src/version.c in the commit for "updated for version 7.3.002" seems
> to only mention that patch 1 is included.
> http://code.google.com/p/vim/source/detail?r=f0915ae869cf7f143b7bb1a8c24b581f5e3a0909
>
>
> >But applying patch 7.3.001 to it (trying: patch -p0 < 7.3.001, patch
> >-i -p0 < 7.3.001, patch -i -p 7.3.001, patch -i -p0 7.3.001) failed.
> >
> >So something screwed up here...may be my version of 7.2.446 is
> >corrupted.
> >
> >Where can I get the source of vim-7.<last pre-7.3.001> WITHOUT
> >compiling it in one go (I read about aap, but this one downloads the
> >newest version an recompiles the whole stuff, which is reasonable for
> >such a tool and really neat -- but unfortunately not what I want... ;)
>
> It's unclear what exactly you're trying to do here, so just to clear up
> a possible misinterpretation:
>
> The patches are against the source code, not against binaries. So, you
> can't really get by without "recompil[ing] the whole stuff"... unless
> you just mean that you don't want the entire `./compile [options] &&
> make && make clean`. (rather something like: `./compile [options] &&
> make && make install` followed by repeatedly: `patch && make && make
> install`)
>

Yes, I know: patching is patching against source instead of
binaries...

I simply only wants the source of 7.3.001 or (better) the version
of vim to which I can apply patch 7.3.001.

After aap has fetched the source, it recompiles vim, which is not
wanted at this point.

I only want to create source versions, no recompilations.
Binaries are the very last step, the one I will do with
version 7.3.438 (the recent one as far as I can remember).


>
> >How can I proceed here?
>
> Unless the goal is to omit certain patches, this would be much easier
> using the Mercurial repository.
>
> Repeat for desired versions:
> `hg checkout [version] && cd src && ./compile [options] && make
> [etc.]`.

And at this point one will win 1000 points for free if knowing, how
to enter the version string...

I tried

7.3.001
r7.3.001 (like svn)
v7-3-001 (as used by .hg.tags)

but without luck so far.

What is the correct spelling here ?


> If you want to find the point at which some problem was introduced, `hg
> bisect` is a much better tool.
>
> I posted a script for use with `hg bisect` (or `git bisect` against an
> hg-git version of the repo) in response to another problem a while
> back:
> http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/msg/50e3747317d9b5a8
>
> You'd want to modify two portions of the script:
>
> In the section: {{{ this defines what will actually be run, vim-wise
> }}}
> The line:
> cmd+=( +new +'redir! > MESSAGES' +'silent! windo verbose set spc?'
> +'redir END' +qa )
> sets up to test a problem with the 'spc' setting when splitting
> windows.
>
> And in the section: {{{ specific to this test }}}
> The line:
> grep 'spellcapcheck=' MESSAGES | grep -qv 'spellcapcheck=\[' || good
> checks the MESSAGES file to see whether the test passed.
>
> Not sure if the script is a bit overwhelming as an intro to bisection.
> The important points are that `hg bisect` expects a script to compile,
> make, install (if needed), and then run some kind of test. The return
> value of the script shows how the test turned out:
>
> 0 = good (test passed, so this revision is unaffected)
> 1 = bad (test failed, so this revision has the bug)
> 125 = skip (something failed before the test could be run)
>
> --
> Best,
> Ben
>
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Best regards
mcc

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