From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2520 invoked by alias); 25 Jul 2005 20:49:13 -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 2486 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Jul 2005 20:49:01 -0000 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:49:01 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j6PKn09R007071; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:49:00 -0400 Received: from post-office.corp.redhat.com (post-office.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.227]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j6PKn0V10956; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:49:00 -0400 Received: from greed.delorie.com (dj.cipe.redhat.com [10.0.0.222]) by post-office.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j6PKmvh08463; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:48:58 -0400 Received: from greed.delorie.com (greed.delorie.com [127.0.0.1]) by greed.delorie.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j6PKmrou020868; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:48:53 -0400 Received: (from dj@localhost) by greed.delorie.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j6PKmjU4020865; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:48:45 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:49:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200507252048.j6PKmjU4020865@greed.delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie To: dannysmith@users.sourceforge.net, bonzini@gnu.org CC: gcc@gcc.gnu.org In-reply-to: <20050725152206.GB3102@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> (message from Christopher Faylor on Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:22:06 -0400) Subject: Re: PING [4.1 regression, patch] build i686-pc-mingw32 References: <20050719201404.GA26817@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20050719202104.GA14525@nevyn.them.org> <20050721021003.GA23290@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <200507210225.j6L2P6YI000508@greed.delorie.com> <20050721024039.GF23290@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <200507210258.j6L2w5Qv000903@greed.delorie.com> <20050721030538.GH23290@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <200507210310.j6L3An6l001219@greed.delorie.com> <20050721031402.GI23290@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <19c433eb050725063747fc4573@mail.gmail.com> <20050725152206.GB3102@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-SW-Source: 2005-07/txt/msg01069.txt.bz2 > Presumably, people with blanket write privs and people responsible for > the build machinery. Yup, that's them. I did a little historical digging on this item, and the original trigger was http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-05/msg00280.html where Paolo needed to switch from symlinks to hardlinks for toplevel bootstrapping. So, I think we've confused the issue enough that we may be making bad decisions (or at least *I* am confused and may make bad decisions ;). Paolo, could you go back and think about the bootstrapping problem from MinGW's perspective? Danny, could you summarize which build features MinGW supports? (I assume cp and $(SHELL) but not symlinks, hardlinks, or #!). DJGPP and Cygwin shouldn't be a problem here; they both support symlinks and #! but I don't think they support hardlinks.