Re: [Fink-devel] when builds fail (e.g., gcc44)

2009-10-12 Thread Jack Howarth
I would be very cautious about automating bug reports for gcc. The last thing we need is upstream getting irked over a flood of bootstrap failures that are due to incorrect local configurations. Darwin is already treated as a free loader by upstream (hence the target depreciation). Abusing the

[Fink-devel] when builds fail (e.g., gcc44)

2009-10-11 Thread Dave Yost
I suggest that fink be enhanced to do what some other systems have been doing lately: package up all the info for a bug report and send it to the right place (after the user has a chance to look it over and say OK). The above functionality would replace the stdout dump of do-it-yourself

Re: [Fink-devel] when builds fail (e.g., gcc44)

2009-10-11 Thread Martin Costabel
Dave Yost wrote: I suggest that fink be enhanced to do what some other systems have been doing lately: package up all the info for a bug report and send it to the right place (after the user has a chance to look it over and say OK). The above functionality would replace the stdout dump of