On Fri, 31 Jul 2026, Даниил Гусев wrote: > I'm not aware of any discussion behind dropping the cleanup step - > from what I can tell it was incidental.
It was suggested in review: https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc-patches/[email protected]/ (and I would agree with Paolo — the script should not delete the files) > download_prerequisites was introduced in 2010 (commit 69baf0a) and > explicitly removed the downloaded archives at the end: > > rm $MPFR.tar.bz2 $GMP.tar.bz2 $MPC.tar.gz || exit 1 > > That stayed in place for about three years. > > In 2013, commit a8db599 ("download_prerequisites: Download isl and > cloog conditionally") dropped that line while adding conditional > isl/cloog handling. The commit message is entirely about making > isl/cloog optional and says nothing about archive cleanup, so the > removal looks like an unrelated side effect rather than a deliberate > change. > > So my patch is restoring the 2010-2013 behavior rather than > introducing something new. --save-archives/--no-save-archives is > there for people who want to keep the archives around (offline > rebuilds etc). I would like an explanation of the purpose of restoring the 2013 behavior. Did anyone request that? Alexander
