From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19666 invoked by alias); 29 Sep 2002 18:36:52 -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 19621 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2002 18:36:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.112.240.27) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 Sep 2002 18:36:51 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 357CF3DC8; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 14:36:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D974828.4050009@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 11:36:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020824 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nathanael Nerode Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: top level: make more dependencies explicit References: <20020929165232.GA27545@doctormoo.dyndns.org> <3D9733C2.2010405@redhat.com> <20020929172608.GA27678@doctormoo.dyndns.org> <3D973C44.6090601@redhat.com> <20020929174544.GA30373@doctormoo.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00500.txt.bz2 >> The mechanism is very old (it pre-dates me as GDB release engineer). >> Changing it is going to involve updates to many things - snapshot >> scripts, release process doco, .... so won't happen overnight. > > > Mmmm. I'm going to start rewriting it now. >:-= What does the GNU coding standard have to say about the release process? 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. Andrew