Re: Info-files missing in gcc 3.2.2

["Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Christian Cornelssen wrote:

> added. "cvs rdiff" would not be affected. If you mean diffs between
> actual release tar contents, then this would matter for diff users
> without makeinfo.

I mean the diffs supplied between the release tarballs.

> inconvenience of having to install makeinfo. Don't you think that
> typical users will download gcc-3.2.2.tar.*z*, regardless of whether
> versions with additional suffixes exist?

I expect they would have downloaded gcc-3.2.tar.*z* when 3.2 came out,
downloaded the diffs to 3.2.1 (not the whole tarball) when 3.2.1 came out,
the diffs to 3.2.2 (which remove the info files) when 3.2.2 came out and
will download the diffs to 3.2.3 when 3.2.3 comes out.  To build 3.2.3
they will unpack the tarball and apply successive diffs; this will fail if
the 3.2.3 diffs patch info files in the expectation they were present,
because they were generated against an updated release tarball.  The diffs
are exact diffs between the tarball contents (provided you apply them with
GNU patch; otherwise, diffs between binary message catalogs might cause
problems).

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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk