From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20094 invoked by alias); 16 May 2002 14:35:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 20054 invoked from network); 16 May 2002 14:35:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gandalf.codesourcery.com) (66.60.148.227) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 16 May 2002 14:35:02 -0000 Received: from gandalf.codesourcery.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gandalf.codesourcery.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4GETIj07063; Thu, 16 May 2002 07:29:19 -0700 Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 07:50:00 -0000 From: Mark Mitchell To: "Richard.Kreckel@Uni-Mainz.DE" cc: "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" Subject: Re: GCC 3.1 Released Message-ID: <163820000.1021559358@gandalf.codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg01294.txt.bz2 --On Thursday, May 16, 2002 03:48:49 PM +0200 "Richard B. Kreckel" wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Mark Mitchell wrote: > [...] >> The release can be found in the file: >> >> gcc/gcc-3.1/gcc-3.1.tar.gz > > Which in addition is symlinked by gcc/gcc-3.1.tar.gz. I don't recall when > this habit started, but I would like to ask you to refrain from this > symlinking. I'm not sure where that originates; that's how the 3.0.x releases were done, so that's how I did this one. > The reason is as follows: Many people like to get the whole directory > gcc-3.1 tar'ed up by jsut saying > > ftp> get gcc-3.1.tar That actually gets you a lot of the same things twice; the gcc-3.1.tar.gz file actually contains everything in that directory. -- Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com CodeSourcery, LLC http://www.codesourcery.com