From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29232 invoked by alias); 4 Dec 2001 20:36:55 -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 29197 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2001 20:36:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO puce.csi.cam.ac.uk) (131.111.8.40) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Dec 2001 20:36:51 -0000 Received: from student.cusu.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.179.82] helo=kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk ident=mail) by puce.csi.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 16BMJ3-0001as-00; Tue, 04 Dec 2001 20:36:45 +0000 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16BMJ3-00075p-00; Tue, 04 Dec 2001 20:36:45 +0000 Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 12:36:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" X-X-Sender: To: Phil Edwards cc: , , Subject: Re: gcc-ss-20011203 is now available In-Reply-To: <20011204153416.A24659@disaster.jaj.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00159.txt.bz2 On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Phil Edwards wrote: > look at maintainer-scripts/crontab > look at wall clock > if TIME near Sunday 4:40 PM Pacific timezone Monday. > 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. Instead we simply require people building from snapshots to have the necessary tools intalled to build generated files they'd need when building from CVS. 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. -- Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk