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Re: PATCH: Bump version on mainline
Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
> Funny, I was going to suggest something very similar.
>
> However, I would also like to add something like --with-distributor
> and --with-support-url. So that, for example, we could build GCC
> 3.4.2 without modifying the sources at all, but with appropriate
> configuration options, and get:
>
> 3.4.2 (CodeSourcery 2005Q1A)
>
> That's a superset of your improvement, though.
I can see that being nice, but I'd vote for doing it as a subsequent
improvement.
> Your improvement would also be nice in that it would allow us to
> easily automate one more step of the release process. Right now,
> you're supposed to remote the datestamp just long enough to create
> the final tarball; no reason the release script couldn't just make
> DATESTAMP a zero-length file instead, without actually mucking with
> CVS.
There are problems with that: we want a cvs checkout at the release
tag to duplicate what's in the tarball (except for generated files
that are never kept in CVS), and it doesn't get rid of the
"(prerelease)". But I'll see if I ca think of something that does
what you want.
> Would you like to implement your suggestion? I can't imagine anyone
> objecting to your idea, though my configure options might be a
> little more controversial.
If you don't mind my doing it on company time, sure, I'll squeeze that
in sometime this week.
zw