Re: gcc-ss-20011203 is now available

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

On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:36:41PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Phil Edwards wrote:
> > if TIME near Sunday 4:40 PM Pacific timezone
> 
> Monday.

Thinko.

> > 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.
> 
> It only does a build for releases, not snapshots.  Given the load on 
> gcc.gnu.org, doing a build for snapshots does not seem wise.

Ah, okay.  Maybe once the pserver load is off to some other machine.
But then there sre still...

> Besides, patching generated files that aren't in CVS doesn't really work
> well - there isn't a "release mode" for gcc_update that will clean up
> timestamps on (say) Bison-generated files after applying a patch, despite
> those files being in CVS and so not meant to be touched for CVS checkouts.
> 
> Including Info and Bison-generated files would also substantially bulk up 
> diffs.

...these issues.  Hmmm.


Phil

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