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Re: [PATCH][Revised2]PR41180 pt2: fix config.guess on darwin10
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo dot med dot uc dot edu>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, config-patches at gnu dot org, mrs at apple dot com
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 23:36:55 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH][Revised2]PR41180 pt2: fix config.guess on darwin10
- References: <20090901232349.GA27400@bromo.med.uc.edu>
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Okay for gcc trunk and gcc 4.4 a week later?
Such patches are never OK for GCC trunk; what's OK for GCC trunk, and does
not need approval (see svnwrite.html and codingconventions.html), is
updating config.guess from the upstream version once a fix is in there -
but you must make it an exact copy of the new upstream version, which may
have other upstream changes since the last version imported to GCC trunk
(note that "Only after the change makes it to the FTP site should the new
files be installed in the GCC source tree, so that their version numbers
remain meaningful and unique. Don't install the patch, install the whole
file." in codingconventions.html).
Once you have a patch upstream and the new upstream version in GCC trunk
you can then propose a backport to 4.4 marked clearly as a backport of a
specific identified revision from upstream. Proposing a backport at this
point is premature when you don't have an upstream commit you are
proposing to backport.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com