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Re: My patch for GCC 5 directory names
- From: Richard Biener <rguenther at suse dot de>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>,Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Michael Matz <matz 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 18:32:15 +0200
- Subject: Re: My patch for GCC 5 directory names
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On May 12, 2015 6:11:45 PM GMT+02:00, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Richard Biener
><richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On May 12, 2015 5:58:07 PM GMT+02:00, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>>>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
>>
>> Printing post-release doesn't add any information. I believe Jakub
>fixed the missing svn revision printing already.
>>
>
>What is the real benefit of your patch?
It keeps an unchanging directory structure for the whole GCC 5 series (also requested by customers in the past). I've been asked to post the patch I am using for this. Previous discussion concluded that we want a configury to control this.
Richard.