Why does it look for a repository in the output directory ???

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2012-10-22 16:11, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> On 2012-10-22 13:48, David Holmes wrote:
>> When I run configure the first thing I see is:
>>
>> abort: no repository found in 
>> '/export/users/dh198349/build-infra/b00/se-linux-i586-client-ea' (.hg 
>> not found)!
>>
>> This is my output directory, so why is the build trying to run a hg 
>> command on it?
>
> This is a bad side-effect of my added robustness checks to configure, 
> which looks for actually (in the "hg status" sense) modified files 
> before complaining that the generated file is out of date. I didn't 
> remember that hg needed to have a proper working directory to be able 
> to check status, and never noticed it myself since I always ran 
> configure in the top-level repo.
>
> I'll fix it. Thank you for your report.
Fix pushed.

/Magnus