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Re: My patch for GCC 5 directory names
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>
- Cc: Richard Biener <rguenther at suse dot de>, GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 08:58:07 -0700
- Subject: Re: My patch for GCC 5 directory names
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On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Michael Matz <matz@suse.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 12 May 2015, H.J. Lu wrote:
>
>> >> So we have
>> >>
>> >> experimental
>> >> release
>> >> post-release
>> >>
>> >> Why not just rename prerelease to post-release? That is a one-line
>> >> change.
>> >
>> > Why print anything at all? 5.1.1 is after 5.1.0 in obvious ways.
>> >
>>
>> How can you tell GCC 5.1.1 on May 1, 2015 from GCC 5.1.1
>> on May 12, 2015?
>
> Via the svn revision. But as the subject says, this patch is not so much
So? Doesn't post-release display the svn revision.for gcc -v, which
gcc -v doesn't display today? Something like this
diff --git a/gcc/DEV-PHASE b/gcc/DEV-PHASE
index e69de29..ee176f8 100644
--- a/gcc/DEV-PHASE
+++ b/gcc/DEV-PHASE
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+post-release
> about the --version output (though it changes it in IMO sensible way), but
> rather about file and directory names, so that they are based only on the
> major version, not on the micro version (where major before gcc5 was X.Y,
> and now is only X).
>
>
> Ciao,
> Michael.
--
H.J.