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Re: No more snapshots?
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 09:36:45PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
>
> > > Snapshots aren't just built ad hoc, they use a particular script.
> > > That script is failing. I just looked into it, and it's failing
> > > because the code which sets the version number of the snapshot to the
> > > current date is breaking because the format of the newly generated
> > > gas/configure file has changed slightly.
> > >
> > > I fixed the script to accommodate the new format, and I'm building a
> > > snapshot now.
> >
> > Is the script available somewhere, and any interest in putting it into
> > the repository? I was guessing they used src-release, which is what I
> > use for releases, but I guess not.
>
> There is no ``they,'' there's just me. The script is
Unless you embody the plurality of all binutils snapshots... wait,
maybe you do.
> ~ian/bin/binutils-snapshot
> which invokes the script
> ~ian/bin/binutils-cvs-snapshot
> Both files are on sourceware.org aka sources.redhat.com. The
> binutils-snapshot script is invoked by my crontab.
>
> The script does use src-release to make the actual tar ball, but it
> has to do a bit more than that also.
>
> I don't think the script really belongs in the binutils repository,
> because it's fairly sourceware specific. But I can check it into the
> sourceware infra repository if that would be helpful.
I don't think it would make much difference. In any case, thanks for
the pointer; one more thing I can check to see what I'm breaking.
Well, I could if your home directory was accessable.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer