From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7759 invoked by alias); 28 Dec 2011 17:29:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 7750 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Dec 2011 17:29:20 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-vw0-f41.google.com (HELO mail-vw0-f41.google.com) (209.85.212.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:29:07 +0000 Received: by vbbfn1 with SMTP id fn1so11655056vbb.0 for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:29:06 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.31.166 with SMTP id b6mr15516599vdi.70.1325093346763; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:29:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.220.179.130 with HTTP; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:29:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:29:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: gdb-* -> gdb-*a links on FTP site? [was Re: binutils-2.20.1a replaced by 2.20.1 and so 2.21.1a?] From: Martin Guy To: gdb@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-12/txt/msg00052.txt.bz2 On Sep 1, 2011, at 10:43:20, Tristan Gingold wrote: > On Aug 31, 2011, at 9:23 PM, Abdoulaye Walsimou GAYE wrote: >> On 08/30/2011 05:36 PM, Tristan Gingold wrote: >> This kind of URL change is a serial killer for automatic build system/script already shipped. >> Is it possible to have simlinks like 'oldername'->'newname' >> (as for example binutils-2.21.1a.tar.bz2 tarball will actually contain binutils-2.21.1)? > >Yes, good idea. >Done for 2.16 to 2.21.1. > >Tristan. Hi Could the same scheme of links be implemented on the gdb download site? As gdb-6.2a.tar.gz unpacks to gdb-6.2/ etc, that would also avoid the need for extra code everywhere to handle that cheers & thanks for all the good work M