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Re: To Steering Committee: RFC for patch revert policy (PR48403, bootstrap broken on many targets)
- From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
- To: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Bernd Schmidt <bernds at codesourcery dot com>, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, Steven Bosscher <stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com>, David Edelsohn <dje at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 16:15:58 +0200
- Subject: Re: To Steering Committee: RFC for patch revert policy (PR48403, bootstrap broken on many targets)
- References: <BANLkTi=AgWe2QOQ=bZ+a1XT7YQ1J1YKtyw@mail.gmail.com> <BANLkTimAnuOTs4Zn-styegJGiHnPPJk_fw@mail.gmail.com> <4D9B1C68.5000206@redhat.com>
> I the case of the current x86 breakage, the only problem I've been aware
> of was an internal report from bkoz that bootstrap was breaking on
> x86_64 (with no other details). Meanwhile my bootstraps were running
> fine. It wasn't until HJ's autotester reported the key
> "--disable-checking" configury bits that we were able to confirm a
> problem and start the real process of diagnosing what went wrong.
No, this isn't what happened, see the audit trail of PR48403. This was a big
breakage. --disable-checking had nothing to do with the problem either.
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Eric Botcazou