Re: [htdig-dev] boolean terms in phrase - bug?

[Gilles D. <gr...@sc...>]

According to an...@ti...:
>    Is it possible to have this patch so that I can commit it before 3.2.0b6
> is released? Thank you very much.

OK, I committed Lachlan's patch, which Joe provided in the patch archives,
so the parser fix is in now.

I also made about four other changes which were things that had slipped
through the cracks, and I rediscovered this morning while looking at
RPMs of htdig.  I through in one of Red Hat's patches to db/hash.c,
which I can't imagine breaking anything.

I did discover a little problem, though, while looking through for things
that may have slipped through the cracks.  The fixes that Lachlan had
made back in April to get database creation working on Cygwin included
a couple manual fixes to db/aclocal.m4 and db/configure, to switch in
the new os_abs.c.win32 file when needed.  Well, those two fixes were
lost when Gabriele rebuilt these two scripts using autoreconf earlier
this month.  Now if I understand correctly, the configure script is
built from configure.in and aclocal.m4, but what builds aclocal.m4 and
how can we force that to preserve Lachlan's addition?

I suppose we can manually re-add this fix to these two files before
releasing b6, and deal with the problem properly later, but we really
need to deal with this.  The problem with all these autotools is that
it's extremely difficult to keep straight what builds what (and what
clobbers what!), so how to you make changes permanent?

Gabriele and Lachlan, I'll throw this in your hands.  You can decide
between the two of you how you want this fixed for b6 and for 3.2.0 final,
and how much this should (further) delay the b6 release.

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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <gr...@sc...>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)