From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2243 invoked by alias); 11 Jan 2002 15:26:37 -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 2212 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2002 15:26:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.cygnus.com) (24.114.42.213) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Jan 2002 15:26:34 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.cygnus.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D07D3C53; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:26:34 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C3F0429.6070009@cygnus.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 07:26:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20020103 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com Cc: Michael Snyder , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Changing the C/C++ compiler for gdb testsuite runs References: <200201111023.KAA26358@cam-mail2.cambridge.arm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg00123.txt.bz2 > But since they don't come from the same CVS tree, I can't see how to do > that cleanly without dicking around with the common code directories such > as libiberty and include -- experience has shown that with the public CVS > repositories that is fraught with problems. I have done it in the past, > but it breaks the principal that the sources you are testing are the > sources you are committing, so it isn't really a viable option. Is the experience recent? At present mechanical processes help to ensure that liberty and include are kept very much in sync (typically only hours separate commits). Andrew