On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbg...@lug-owl.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> There was a discussion on the binutils mailing list recently, because
> shared files were out of sync and a merge error showed up afterwards.
>
> That made my write a small script to check the shared files between
> the `src' and `gcc' repos, as well as the `config' repo to both of
> them.
>
> The consensus was that for the mentioned shared files between `src'
> and `gcc', a global maintainer's ACK qualifies to sync changes between
> these two repos, which I volunteer for.
>
>
> Another story are config.{guess,sub} from the `config' repo. For GCC,
> both are out of sync right now, missing a (small) number of commits.
> How shall these files be handled? Send all changes separate to
> gcc-patches, asking them to be ACKed? Or only import those when they
> were actually needed? (And if they should be regularly imported, what
> author and date attribution should be put into GCC's ChangeLog?)


config.sub and config.guess can be just copied (merged) without
applying each patch I think.  As we don't need to know the history of
them as they have been just merged in rather than each patch applied.
For the others, I don't know what we should do there.


Thanks,
Andrew Pinski

>
> Thanks, JBG
>
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