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Re: Please *bootstrap* patches
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu>
- To: "Giovanni Bajo" <giovannibajo at libero dot it>
- Cc: "Steven Bosscher" <stevenb at suse dot de>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 21 Sep 2004 08:50:22 -0500
- Subject: Re: Please *bootstrap* patches
- Organization: Texas A&M University, Department of Computer Science
- References: <1399152.1095758329809.SLOX.WebMail.wwwrun@extimap.suse.de><003101c49fde$820e0710$dc4e2a97@bagio>
"Giovanni Bajo" <giovannibajo@libero.it> writes:
| Yes, this was my patch. While I sympathize with your sentiment, I
| must notice that there is no official need to bootstrap a C++ only
| patch (a patch affecting only files in cp/). In fact, our
| official rules at http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html say:
You're right.
[...]
| This was suggested by Jason Merrill. If this procedure does not
| activate -Werror, then it is a problem of our contribution rules, which I
| follow literally. When I invoke "make all-gcc" on my patched decl.c, I see the
Not a problem with the contribution rules. But a problem in the
makefiles. Since we currently build cc1plus only with GCC, we
should have put -Werror for regular make. That is what should be fixed.
-- Gaby