Re: gcc-ss-20011203 is now available

[Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com>]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:24:14PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 guerby@acm.org wrote:
> > May be the snapshot script could use a stable checkout, if 
> > the script is using contrib/gcc_build checkout I can propose
> > a patch to implement a stable-checkout option. Algorithm:

Alternative algorithm:

look at maintainer-scripts/crontab
look at wall clock
if TIME near Sunday 4:40 PM Pacific timezone
    wait until the snapshot is finished
end if
checkin

:-)


> The established practice is that snapshots may sometimes be broken and
> people using them should just wait for the next snapshot in that case.

Doesn't gcc_release do a build in order to ensure the generated source
files are there?  It's certainly no guarantee, but it should prevent
snapshots from going out that don't build on, say, i596-linux.

(I don't think it would help Ada or IA-64, though.)


Phil

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