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Re: GCC-3.2.2 pre-release (second iteration)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- Cc: Greg Schafer <gschafer at zip dot com dot au>, Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>, Paolo Carlini <pcarlini at unitus dot it>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:06:56 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: GCC-3.2.2 pre-release (second iteration)
On 31 Jan 2003, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> | It is probably the bison thing as Paolo suggested. But I thought the
> | maintainer scripts were supposed to adjust the timestamps so as not to rely
> | on the bison in the user's environment. Dunno.
>
> I believe that the maintainer scripts aren't that smart :-(
The maintainer scripts work fine. The tarballs generated by the release
script include Bison-generated files generated by the person who ran the
script; when a user builds the tarball, the version of Bison they have is
irrelevant as the timestamps are correct. When building from CVS, the
user's Bison version is relevant - but the Bison-generated files will only
be regenerated when the source file changes in CVS, not when you upgrade
Bison if the source file doesn't change. Bison-generated files do not go
in CVS.
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk