From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11160 invoked by alias); 29 Sep 2002 19:25:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 11139 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2002 19:25:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO egil.codesourcery.com) (66.92.14.122) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 Sep 2002 19:25:09 -0000 Received: from zack by egil.codesourcery.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 17vjge-0006cm-00; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 12:25:04 -0700 Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 12:25:00 -0000 To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Nathanael Nerode , gdb@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: top level: make more dependencies explicit Message-ID: <20020929192504.GE1288@codesourcery.com> References: <20020929165232.GA27545@doctormoo.dyndns.org> <3D9733C2.2010405@redhat.com> <20020929172608.GA27678@doctormoo.dyndns.org> <3D973C44.6090601@redhat.com> <20020929174544.GA30373@doctormoo.dyndns.org> <3D974828.4050009@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D974828.4050009@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Zack Weinberg X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00502.txt.bz2 On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 02:36:24PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: > What does the GNU coding standard have to say about the release process? There are some Makefile targets defined for this purpose, but personally I think that part of the spec is out of date and should be ignored. > I'd also be wary of a ``rewrite'', the top-level stuff iteracts with > sub-directories in strange ways. I think reserving the existing > behavior (but perhaphs outside of the Makefile.in) would be a better > incremental step. > > Also, how does this compare to GCC's release process. GCC uses a number of scripts (such as maintainer-scripts/gcc_release) kept in CVS, but separate from the Makefiles. I think this is the way to go. It prevents exactly this sort of interaction problem. Also, the version control policy on release scripts is likely to be different enough that isolation in separate files will make life easier. And it's ever so much easier to write big shell scripts if you don't have to put backslashes at the end of every line. zw