On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 06:35:29PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:00:10PM -0800, David Daney wrote: > > I like this, but what if you also did an svn status to see if there were > > any modifications WRT the branch/revision and then add either 'clean' or > > 'modified' to the information. > > > > So you would get (gcc-4_1-branch revision 108596 modified) or > > (gcc-4_1-branch revision 108596 clean) > > I think we already had this discussion and decided that svn status took > too long in many cases.
I think running "svn status" in ./configure may slow down configure a lot. Also, you may not always be able to run "svn status" in ./configure since a gcc tree may not be checked out with svn. However, running "svn status" in ./contrib/gcc_update may not be that noticeable. H.J.