Re: No more snapshots?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

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.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer