From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 58606 invoked by alias); 16 Sep 2015 15:41:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 58595 invoked by uid 89); 16 Sep 2015 15:41:10 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-wi0-f182.google.com Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com (HELO mail-wi0-f182.google.com) (209.85.212.182) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:41:09 +0000 Received: by wiclk2 with SMTP id lk2so76954965wic.1 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 08:41:06 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.180.86.137 with SMTP id p9mr20481665wiz.38.1442418066486; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 08:41:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.46.41.189] (089144201189.atnat0010.highway.a1.net. [89.144.201.189]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id cm6sm5098736wib.22.2015.09.16.08.41.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 16 Sep 2015 08:41:05 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: <55F9683B.8080105@ubuntu.com> References: <1441916913-11547-1-git-send-email-dmalcolm@redhat.com> <1441916913-11547-3-git-send-email-dmalcolm@redhat.com> <55F720E6.7020709@redhat.com> <4CB1399A-23A6-44F7-A25F-ECBD953E03A0@gmail.com> <55F74C3D.50504@redhat.com> <1B14D92A-0476-416B-A80D-A3083383C48D@gmail.com> <55F9683B.8080105@ubuntu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: dejagnu version update? From: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:46:00 -0000 To: Matthias Klose ,gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Message-ID: <85DEF81B-05B6-4BB8-9A50-228B77913DA9@gmail.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-09/txt/msg01197.txt.bz2 On September 16, 2015 3:01:47 PM GMT+02:00, Matthias Klose wrote: >On 09/15/2015 09:23 PM, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote: >> On September 15, 2015 7:39:39 PM GMT+02:00, Mike Stump > wrote: >>> On Sep 14, 2015, at 3:37 PM, Jeff Law wrote: >>>>> Maybe GCC-6 can bump the required >>>>> dejagnu version to allow for getting rid of all these superfluous >>>>> load_gcc_lib? *blink* :) >>>> I'd support that as a direction. >>>> >>>> Certainly dropping the 2001 version from our website in favor of >1.5 >>> (which is what I'm using anyway) would be a step forward. >>> >>> So, even ubuntu LTS is 1.5 now. No harm in upgrading the website to >>> 1.5. I don’t know of any reason to not update and just require 1.5 >at >>> this point. I’m not a fan of feature chasing dejagnu, but an update >>> every 2-4 years isn’t unreasonable. >>> >>> So, let’s do it this way… Any serious and compelling reason to not >>> update to 1.5? If none, let’s update to 1.5 in another week or two, >if >>> no serious and compelling reasons not to. >>> >>> My general plan is, slow cycle updates on dejagnu, maybe every 2 >years. >>> LTS style releases should have the version in it before the >requirement >>> is updated. I take this approach as I think this should be the >maximal >>> change rate of things like make, gcc, g++, ld, if possible. >> >> Yea, although this means that 1.5.3 (a Version with the libdirs >tweak) being just 5 months old will have to wait another bump, I fear. >For my part going to plain 1.5 is useless WRT the load_lib situation. I >see no value in conditionalizing simplified libdir handling on a lucky >user with recentish stuff so i'm just waiting another 2 or 4 years for >this very minor cleanup. > >is this libdirs tweak backportable to 1.5.1 (Debian stable), or 1.5 >(Ubuntu LTS)? Should be trivial, yes: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/dejagnu.git/commit/?id=5481f29161477520c691d525653323b82fa47ad7 Thanks,