Patch branching.html: defaulting to --disable-checking/--disable-werror

Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk
Wed Jan 22 01:12:00 GMT 2003


On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:

> I don't think we've been very consistent in the past on this topic.
> 
> And there are plusses and minuses to doing this earlier and later.
> 
> Obviouly we want extra checks up until the last minute.  But recall
> when we were close to releasing 3.0, we turned off checking only to
> find that a major bug turned up only with checking turned off.  So
> it's also good to test exactly the code you intend to release and not
> something "pretty close to it" as the checking toggles create.

If things are to be done at the start of a branch, there's no need for a
manual action in branching.html - having configure extract the development
status from doc/include/gcc-common.texi would be better, to reduce the
number of files needing changing when creating a branch.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk



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