Re: intl directory: gcc vs. src

Steve Ellcey
2006-05-16T22:37:02Z

> > What do people who build in a combined tree do with intl? Do they use
> > the GCC version or the src tree version? Is there any consensus about
> > whether or not there should be a single version of intl, and if so,
> > which one should be used?
>
> Yes, there should be a single version of intl. I don't think anybody
> cares which version is used, as long as it works. If you have taken
> the time to test a unified intl, and are prepared to fix any problems,
> I think your patch would be great.
>
> Ian

OK, I can sign up for that. While looking at the changes needed for the
text in the MAINTAINERS file, I saw the following entry for libiberty:

| libiberty/; libiberty's part of include/
| gcc: http://gcc.gnu.org
| Changes need to be done in tandem with the official GCC
| sources or submitted to the master file maintainer and brought
| in via a merge. Note: approved patches in gcc's libiberty
| are automatically approved in this libiberty also; feel free
| to merge them yourself if needed sooner than the next merge.
| Otherwise, changes are automatically merged, usually within
| a day.

Can someone tell me about this automatic merge? I was going to submit a
formal patch to change the contents of src/intl but it seems that if we
have an automatic merge to copy libiberty from gcc to src, we could do
the same for intl (and src/config.rhost) and then I wouldn't need to do
any actual checkins for those changes. If we can do that then the only
thing I would need to change by hand would be the intl text that is in
the MAINTAINERS file.

Who maintains this automatic merge process?

Steve Ellcey
sje@cup.hp.com