On Tue, 12 May 2015, H.J. Lu wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Richard Biener <rguent...@suse.de> wrote: > > On May 12, 2015 6:11:45 PM GMT+02:00, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.to...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Richard Biener > >><richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> On May 12, 2015 5:58:07 PM GMT+02:00, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.to...@gmail.com> > >>wrote: > >>>>On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Michael Matz <m...@suse.de> wrote: > >>>>> Hi, > >>>>> > >>>>> On Tue, 12 May 2015, H.J. Lu wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> >> So we have > >>>>>> >> > >>>>>> >> experimental > >>>>>> >> release > >>>>>> >> post-release > >>>>>> >> > >>>>>> >> Why not just rename prerelease to post-release? That is a > >>>>one-line > >>>>>> >> change. > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> > Why print anything at all? 5.1.1 is after 5.1.0 in obvious > >>ways. > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> > >>>>>> How can you tell GCC 5.1.1 on May 1, 2015 from GCC 5.1.1 > >>>>>> on May 12, 2015? > >>>>> > >>>>> Via the svn revision. But as the subject says, this patch is not > >>so > >>>>much > >>>> > >>>>So? Doesn't post-release display the svn revision.for gcc -v, which > >>>>gcc -v doesn't display today? Something like this > >>>> > >>>>diff --git a/gcc/DEV-PHASE b/gcc/DEV-PHASE > >>>>index e69de29..ee176f8 100644 > >>>>--- a/gcc/DEV-PHASE > >>>>+++ b/gcc/DEV-PHASE > >>>>@@ -0,0 +1 @@ > >>>>+post-release > >>> > >>> Printing post-release doesn't add any information. I believe Jakub > >>fixed the missing svn revision printing already. > >>> > >> > >>What is the real benefit of your patch? > > > > It keeps an unchanging directory structure for the whole GCC 5 series (also > > requested by customers in the past). I've been asked to post the patch I am > > using for this. Previous discussion concluded that we want a configury to > > control this. > > Why do we have to change directory structure on GCC 5 branch? > Is there a GCC bug for this request?
We don't have to do this and we definitely are not going to change the default. Richard.