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[wwwdocs] updates to regression hunt document
- From: Janis Johnson <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 12:29:07 -0800
- Subject: [wwwdocs] updates to regression hunt document
The following changes have been made to the web page about hunting for
patches that introduced regressions.
Janis
Index: bugs/reghunt.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/bugs/reghunt.html,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -p -r1.1 reghunt.html
--- bugs/reghunt.html 14 Feb 2003 20:43:06 -0000 1.1
+++ bugs/reghunt.html 27 Mar 2003 20:19:56 -0000
@@ -51,9 +51,10 @@ while the range is too large to investig
</ul>
<p>The first three steps are described below. They can be automated,
-as can the framework for the binary search (see the script in
-<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-12/msg01148.html">mail from
-Janis Johnson</a>). There are several <a href="#shortcuts">short cuts</a>
+as can the framework for the binary search. The directory
+<code>contrib/reghunt</code> in the GCC CVS repository includes
+scripts to do this work.
+There are several <a href="#shortcuts">short cuts</a>
that can be used to shorten the elapsed time of the search.</p>
<p>Eventually you'll need to <a href="#identify">identify the patch</a>
@@ -147,11 +148,14 @@ you can do the following after a normal
<pre>
cd <i>objdir</i>
make all-libiberty
+ make configure-gcc || true
cd gcc
make cc1plus
</pre>
-<p>This will build libiberty and <code>cc1plus</code>. When you have
+<p>This will build libiberty and <code>cc1plus</code> (the make of
+<code>configure-gcc</code> is required for configuration changes that
+were added in December 2002). When you have
<code>cc1plus</code>, you can feed your source code snippet to it:</p>
<pre>