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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>
- Cc: Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, 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: Wed, 13 May 2015 10:41:06 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: My patch for GCC 5 directory names
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On Tue, 12 May 2015, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Richard Biener <rguenther@suse.de> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Why do we have to change directory structure on GCC 5 branch?
> Is there a GCC bug for this request?
We don't have to do this and we definitely are not going to change the
default.
Richard.