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From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
To: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: vacuous findlib warnings
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:50:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45E3644E.60806@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070226223342.GA25086@furbychan.cocan.org>

Richard Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:42:42AM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote:
>> I see findlib warnings like this:
>> findlib: [WARNING] Interface qbase.cmi occurs in several directories: 
>> ../../lib, .
>> this is because there is indeed ../../lib/qbase.cmi which is a symbolic 
>> link pointing to ./qbase.cmi (so there is no real duplication, the files 
>> point to the same inode).
>>
>> Is it possible to modify findlib to check that the files are really 
>> different disk objects (inodes) before issuing the warning?
> 
> Agreed.  Even better if it could compare the md5 of the interfaces.

"=" vs "=="? :-)
I would rather not use a checksum here - it has no advantage over an 
honest cmp(1). Actually, cmp(1) is probably faster (because it does not 
have to read the whole file to give a negative answer), and it returns 
TRT (no false positives).

Sam.



      reply	other threads:[~2007-02-26 22:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-26 15:42 Sam Steingold
2007-02-26 22:33 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2007-02-26 22:50   ` Sam Steingold [this message]

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