Re: [RFA] adjust src-release following the renaming of gdb/common/ to gdb/gdbsupport/

[Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>]

On July 13, 2019 1:12:56 AM GMT+02:00, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>A recent change renamed the common/ directory into gdbsupport/ in gdb.
>This causes problems in the getver function in the src-release script
>which doesn't find the create-version.sh script anymore. As a result,
>it falls back on using the version.in file verbatim, meaning that
>the "DATE" placeholder doesn't get replaced with the snapshot date,
>and the "-git" suffix doesn't get stripped. More precisely, we get
>snapshots called "gdb-8.3.50-DATE-git.tar" instead of (e.g.)
>"gdb-8.3-20190712.tar".
>
>For those who have been getting snapshots from sourceware, this is also
>why recent snapshots are missing.
>
>This commit fixes the issue by adding support for this situation.
>I left the support for $tool/common/create-version.sh, because
>the sim still uses that directory structure.
>
>ChangeLog:
>
>        * src-release (getver): If $tool/gdbsupport/create-version.sh
>        exists, use that to determine the version number.
>
>Tested on x86_64-linux, by running the src-release script with "gdb"
>as the argument, and verifying that the name of the tarball is now
>correct.
>
>OK to push?

Ok. 

Richard. 
>
>Thanks!