Re: [PATCH] Import mklog.py from gcc repo

Alex Coplan
2020-09-18T14:48:42Z

On 18/09/2020 16:27, Christian Biesinger via Binutils wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:29 PM Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
> <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> wrote:
> > The simplest way to fix this is to import the script in binutils-gdb and
> > use it from there. It's also nice because we can use it without having
> > a clone of the gcc repo.
>
> I like this in principle, but the one annoying part is that no longer
> prints the patch author/date line, so you have to manually create it.
> I suppose one could make their own script for that (or maybe emacs
> users have a macro for that or something)...

+1 to this, I've been using GCC's contrib/legacy/mklog for binutils for
this reason. Perhaps a flag could be added to mklog.py (or the binutils
version could be modified) to include author/date lines?

>
> Christian

Alex