From: Thierry Parmentelat <thierry.parmentelat@inria.fr>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:27:38 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: hack for dealing with remote distros that have their own devel.pkgs
X-Git-Tag: 5.0-rc33~26
X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?p=build.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=a6bb994a4ac2c3f487cb7b033ed92bac82abf14c

hack for dealing with remote distros that have their own devel.pkgs
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diff --git a/build.common b/build.common
index 95990ce2..c887f3a0 100644
--- a/build.common
+++ b/build.common
@@ -576,7 +576,11 @@ function pl_locateDistroFile () {
     if [ ! -d $configdir ] ; then
 	if [ -f "${configdir}.svnpath" -o -f "${configdir}.gitpath" ] ; then
 	    echo 1>&2 "Invoking make to extract remote config.${pldistro}"
-	    make 1>&2 --silent --no-print-directory -C $builddir stage1=true config.${pldistro}
+	    # we set PLDISTROTAGS here to /dev/null because when dealing with remote distros
+	    # at a very early stage (like searching for devel.pkgs even before the build VM is created)
+	    # then make screams because it cannot find a mandatory include file
+	    # OTOH this mechanism here is not intended to depend on tags specifically
+	    make 1>&2 --no-print-directory -C $builddir stage1=true config.${pldistro} PLDISTROTAGS=/dev/null
 	fi
     fi
     # locate it