Re: Highly annoying packaging change from 2.8 -> 2.9

["Martin v. Loewis" <martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>]

> In gcc 2.8.1, there is a file at the top level named INSTALL.  In
> 2.9.2, there is a directory at the top level named INSTALL containing
> a single file "README".  For those of us who import gcc sources into a
> CVS repository, this is totally unworkable; CVS does not allow a
> directory and a file to exist in the same place at the hierarchy.  So
> anyone who imported gcc 2.8.1 cannot import gcc 2.9.2 and have a clean
> copy.

Please look again. Everything that used to be top-level, is now in a
subdirectory named 'gcc', including INSTALL. This is because gcc is
distributed with some supporting libraries as well, in particular a
C++ and a FORTRAN library (as well as -liberty and other stuff).

As for CVS: You are certainly free to maintain your own tree. However,
for the more recent releases, you can get the full change history from
the CVS at gcc.gnu.org.

Regards,
Martin

P.S. It's 2.95.2 (two-ninety-five-two), not 2.9.2