Re: My patch for GCC 5 directory names

[Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>]

On May 12, 2015 5:58:07 PM GMT+02:00, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Michael Matz <matz@suse.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, 12 May 2015, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>
>>> >> So we have
>>> >>
>>> >> experimental
>>> >> release
>>> >> post-release
>>> >>
>>> >> Why not just rename prerelease to post-release? That is a
>one-line
>>> >> change.
>>> >
>>> > Why print anything at all?  5.1.1 is after 5.1.0 in obvious ways.
>>> >
>>>
>>> How can you tell GCC 5.1.1 on May 1, 2015 from GCC 5.1.1
>>> on May 12, 2015?
>>
>> Via the svn revision.  But as the subject says, this patch is not so
>much
>
>So? Doesn't post-release display the svn revision.for gcc -v, which
>gcc -v doesn't display today? Something like this
>
>diff --git a/gcc/DEV-PHASE b/gcc/DEV-PHASE
>index e69de29..ee176f8 100644
>--- a/gcc/DEV-PHASE
>+++ b/gcc/DEV-PHASE
>@@ -0,0 +1 @@
>+post-release

Printing post-release doesn't add any information.  I believe Jakub fixed the missing svn revision printing already.

Richard.

>
>> about the --version output (though it changes it in IMO sensible
>way), but
>> rather about file and directory names, so that they are based only on
>the
>> major version, not on the micro version (where major before gcc5 was
>X.Y,
>> and now is only X).
>>
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Michael.