gcc-ss-20011203 is now available

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Phil Edwards wrote:

> look at maintainer-scripts/crontab
> look at wall clock
> if TIME near Sunday 4:40 PM Pacific timezone

Monday.

> Doesn't gcc_release do a build in order to ensure the generated source
> files are there?  It's certainly no guarantee, but it should prevent
> snapshots from going out that don't build on, say, i596-linux.

It only does a build for releases, not snapshots.  Given the load on 
gcc.gnu.org, doing a build for snapshots does not seem wise.  Instead we 
simply require people building from snapshots to have the necessary tools 
intalled to build generated files they'd need when building from CVS.

Besides, patching generated files that aren't in CVS doesn't really work
well - there isn't a "release mode" for gcc_update that will clean up
timestamps on (say) Bison-generated files after applying a patch, despite
those files being in CVS and so not meant to be touched for CVS checkouts.

Including Info and Bison-generated files would also substantially bulk up 
diffs.

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