Use subdirectories when generating Formaline tarballs

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1. 

   Frank Löffler

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   • 2011-09-16T13:19:07+00:00
2. 

   Frank Löffler

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   The patch looks fine, please apply. One question though: after updating to this within an existing configuration, would old-style-named files and directories stay around, not ever being deleted? If this would be the case, how difficult would it be to automatically trigger a full removal of old files followed by a full regeneration using the new scheme if old-style files are found?

   • 2011-09-16T13:26:56+00:00
3. 

   Erik Schnetter reporter

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   The easiest way to clean up the previous files is to issue a "make clean". We have mechanisms in Cactus to enforce a rebuild (rerun the CST stage) and to enforce a reconfiguration (rerun configure), but we don't have a corresponding mechanism to enforce cleaning.

   I could add code to look for old-style files, and if so, delete the Formaline directory, which would then probably lead to a make failure, but the next make would succeed. It is difficult to do anything else, because make examines the directory structure first and runs commands later, so we cannot remove old files before make examines what is there. I'm sure there is a trick to do it, but this would require debugging, and would add complexity necessary only for the transition.

   • 2011-09-17T14:32:53+00:00
4. 

   Erik Schnetter reporter

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   Applied (without the check).

   • 2011-09-17T15:12:13+00:00
5. 

   Roland Haas

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   • 2019-02-21T20:24:07+00:00
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