repository copy of FreeBSD i386 config file.

Geoff Keating geoffk@cygnus.com
Tue Sep 12 07:06:00 GMT 2000


Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, David O'Brien wrote:
> > I would like to see gcc/config/i386/freebsd.h,v repository copied to
> > gcc/config/i386/freebsd-aout.h,v (I have a script to fixup the tags).
> > [...]
> > Doing such repository copies (ie, moving and coping files around w/in
> > the repository) is documented in the CVS docs.
> 
> I'm not sure whether we really want to do that (Basically, this is a
> shortcoming of CVS that cannot be solved completely satisfactory)
> or the following...

I think we really _don't_ want to do that.  It means that anyone who
checks out the release branch would find it doesn't work on freebsd.
(I assume you're not proposing this change for the release branch
too).

> > Is this acceptable?  If not, could I get permission to do it this way:
> > 
> >     cvs co gcc/config/i386/freebsd.h
> >     mv gcc/config/i386/freebsd.h gcc/config/i386/freebsd-aout.h
> >     [...]

Probably.  Submit a patch.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>


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