Re: About 31109 - gprofng not built and installed in a combined binutils+gcc build

[Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>]

Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 4:46 AM Vladimir Mezentsev
> <vladimir.mezentsev@oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I asked in https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31109
>>  > I prepared a patch for the releases/gcc-13 branch.
>>  > Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com> rejected my patch for
>> this branch.
>>  > Which branch should I use? master, trunk or something else?
>
> toplevel changes are synced between binutils/gcc master branches only
>
>> Do you really need gprofng in the gcc repo ?
>> if yes:
>>    the fix is trivial.
>>    I did for the releases/gcc-13 branch:
>>       git cherry-pick 24552056fd5fc677c0d032f54a5cad1c4303d312
>>    Can anyone do the same for the correct branch.
>>    I have no write permissions for gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git
>>
>>    I maintain binutils-gdb/gprofng. Who will maintain gcc/gprofng ?
>
> It's maintained in the binutils-gdb repository.  Shared files are synced
> as said above.
>
> I've never seen us care for release branches in the GCC repository,
> combined builds are not really "supported" (or even tested regularly).
>
>> If no:
>>   may I close 31109 ?
>
> So yes, I'd say that's an INVALID bug since it doesn't use master
> branches on both sides.
>

wfm - we don't use them at all and I've also never expected syncs
to happen for non-master.

> Richard.
>
>> Thank you,
>> -Vladimir
>>
>> .
>>

best,
sam