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Re: gcc 3.2.2 release notes, third draft
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: Christian Cornelssen <ccorn at cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Cc: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>, Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 05 Feb 2003 03:08:33 -0200
- Subject: Re: gcc 3.2.2 release notes, third draft
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0302050127510.1125-100000@Dachs.Bau>
On Feb 4, 2003, Christian Cornelssen <ccorn@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Joe Buck wrote:
>> 3.2.2 is a bug fix release only; there are no new features that were
>> not present in GCC 3.2.1.
> This appears to be true as long as those "features" are attributed
> to the to-be-built-and-installed software only. However, the 3.2.2
> build system now supports DESTDIR completely and thus simplifies the
> synopsis of packaging commands.
It was a bug-fix, though. Sub-packages of GCC that used automake
already had partial support for DESTDIR. It was incomplete, though,
and your patch fixed that. That's the only reason why I even
considered proposing to merge the patch into 3.2. If it were really a
new feature, it probably shouldn't have gone in.
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