tinderbox information.

[Egbert Eich]

Also would it be possible to run the build in an lndir-ed tree
to avoid cvs from complaining about files that it doesn't know
about? It would keep the logs much shorter.

Egbert.


Egbert Eich writes:
 > 
 > I'm still trying to understand the build that takes place in
 > tinderbox. It looks like it checks out pieces of the tree
 > and does a 'make -k'. 
 > This has two disadvantages:
 > 1. It doesn't stop on the problem, therefore the area
 >    where the problem happened is not easy to spot.
 > 2. The Makefiles don't get rebuild. If something was
 >    changed within an Imakefile or config file it will
 >    not show up in the logs.
 >