From: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.COM>
To: jsm28@cam.ac.uk (Joseph S. Myers)
Cc: jbuck@synopsys.COM (Joe Buck),
mark@codesourcery.com (Mark Mitchell),
gcc@gcc.gnu.org (gcc@gcc.gnu.org)
Subject: Re: GCC 3.0.4 Released
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 18:07:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200202220202.SAA16504@atrus.synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202220145120.15081-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk> from "Joseph S. Myers" at Feb 22, 2002 01:50:26 AM
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Joe Buck wrote:
>
> > You're thinking of developers as opposed to end users, who will only be
> > using FSF releases. For them, diffs from 3.0.4 to 3.1 will be useful if
> > the size is substantially smaller than just downloading 3.1.
>
> They're also quite likely to run into limitations of gcc_update - even if
> they do run it after patching to adjust timestamps, by design it touches
> files in CVS only, so the timestamps of generated files that aren't in CVS
> may well be wrong after patching.
If the patch is ordered in such a way that diffs to derived files appear after
diffs to the base files, then gcc_update is not needed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-22 2:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-21 16:45 Mark Mitchell
2002-02-21 16:48 ` Joe Buck
2002-02-21 17:24 ` Mark Mitchell
2002-02-21 18:12 ` Joe Buck
2002-02-21 17:21 ` Joseph S. Myers
2002-02-21 17:26 ` Mark Mitchell
2002-02-21 17:42 ` Joseph S. Myers
2002-02-21 17:50 ` Joe Buck
2002-02-21 17:56 ` Joseph S. Myers
2002-02-21 18:07 ` Joe Buck [this message]
2002-02-22 1:51 ` Joseph S. Myers
2002-02-22 2:32 ` Jakub Jelinek
2002-02-21 18:33 ` Mark Mitchell
2002-02-21 17:13 the_sage2000
2002-02-22 2:57 Toon Moene
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