Sinan Circular Dependency Error

[Tristan Sloughter]

This sequence of error->fix->circular kernel dependency happens for any dependency or app file related problem when building:

λ sinan dist

bcmvc_models: Missing parameter in .app file: registered

λ sinan dist

Can't copy a directory to itself ("/home/tristan/Devel/bcmvc/_build/bcmvc/lib/kernel-2.15" to "/home/tristan/Devel/bcmvc/_build/bcmvc/lib/kernel-2.15")

sin_utils:334 [circular_recursion]

Then I do a clean and its all fine:

λ sinan clean

λ sinan dist

[Jordan Wilberding]

Maybe I am missing something, but what is the error if sinan clean fixes it? 

2012/4/25 Tristan Sloughter <tristan....@gmail.com>

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[Tristan Sloughter]

There should never be that error. "Rebooting" after an error and it no longer being there is not a fix ;)

2012/4/28 Jordan Wilberding <jwilb...@gmail.com>

[Eric Merritt]

I am with Tristan on this one. It *shouldn't* occur, at the very
least it should'n be anything percolated to the user.

2012/4/28 Tristan Sloughter <tristan....@gmail.com>:

[Martin Logan]

I have to take issue with that statement. Rebooting after an error and
returning to a known good base state is what light process based
models are all about :)

Martin Logan
Erlang & OTP in Action (Manning) http://manning.com/logan
http://twitter.com/martinjlogan
http://erlware.org

[Jordan Wilberding]

It all depends on the assumptions you make. Sinan caches certain things for certain benefits. This is acceptable usage in other build tools I have used before, where you must do a make clean to get things into a proper order if you edit certain files.

2012/4/28 Tristan Sloughter <tristan....@gmail.com>

[Tristan Sloughter]

Hmm, also if I add deps to an apps .app file and do not do a 'sinan clean' it is unable to find those apps. Like:

Undefined applications: [ibrowse,erlcloud]

After a clean it builds fine.

2012/4/28 Jordan Wilberding <jwilb...@gmail.com>

[Eric Merritt]

Hmm, this seems like its not tracking app file changes correctly. I
will take a look.

Eric