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Re: Recommend directory update
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Recommend directory update
- From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:35:12 +0000
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Cc: rearnsha at arm dot com
- Organization: ARM Ltd.
- Reply-To: rearnsha at arm dot com
> > Any chance that we can crib the contrib structure from gcc and have
> > contrib/update_{gdb,binutils,...}? This would then ensure that configure
> > files didn't get mangled either.
>
> Um, I'm not sure what you mean.
>
> Andrew
Sorry, structure was probably a misleading word to use. contrib is a
directory in the top-level of the source tree. It contains (amongst other
things) a script called gcc_update. This script will update a local copy
of your cvs repository by doing a suitable sequence of "cvs update"
commands. The final part of the script will then touch certain
autogenerated files such as gcc/configure to make sure that it is more
recent than gcc/configure.in -- this avoids the need to continuously track
tools such as autoconf to ensure that your copy is in sync with the copy
used in the repository.
In summary, it's a shell script that does the right things to update the
source for the tool you have checked out.
R.