Re: GCC 4.2.0 Status Report (2007-04-15)

["J.C. Pizarro" <jcpiza at gmail dot com>]

2007/4/16, François-Xavier Coudert <fxcoudert@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1) To update the generated configure scripts of the tarball before
> > than distributing it.
>
> It could be done, but there's the risk that an automated process like
> that might introduce problems. I'd be more in favour of a nightly
> tester that check the "Generated by" headers to see if anything has an
> unexpected version number.

if [ $? == 0 ]; then
  echo "OK. All configure script is generated."
else
  echo "Remove the old configure scripts XXX to non-updated_XXX"
fi

Is it complicated? I believe that not.

> > 2) Or to remove the non-updated configure scripts.
>
> That's a annoyance, because it would require the autotools to build
> the GCC source, which is inconvenient.
>
> FX

The GCC scripts use autotools but the site don't use autotools because
it says which is inconvenient. What???

Don't use autotools or do use autotools? yes or no? Or yes-and-no?

J.C. Pizarro