Re: My patch for GCC 5 directory names

["H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Richard Biener <rguenther@suse.de> wrote:
> On May 12, 2015 6:11:45 PM GMT+02:00, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>>On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Richard Biener
>><richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>>What is the real benefit of your patch?
>
> It keeps an unchanging directory structure for the whole GCC 5 series (also requested by customers in the past). I've been asked to post the patch I am using for this.  Previous discussion concluded that we want a configury to control this.

Why do we have to change directory structure on GCC 5 branch?
Is there a GCC bug for this request?

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H.J.