On 05/12/2015 03:42 PM, Richard Biener wrote:
> 
> I promised to send out my pat^Whack.  Before building I introduce
> gcc/FULL-VER as copy of gcc/BASE-VER and adjust gcc/BASE-VER to
> just the major number.  Then I only need the following small
> patch (where I don't speak enough tcl for fixing libjava.exp "properly").
> 

for reference, I'm using something similar for the distro packaging,
http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/gcccvs/branches/sid/gcc-5/debian/patches/gcc-base-version.diff?view=markup

addressing additional things like

 - c++ incdir
 - differentiating between the full version and the base version
   (you probably want to print out the full version for -v)

> Without the FULL-VER trick the patch would be much larger (BASE-VER
> is referenced a lot).  For a "real" patch (including configury) we
> probably want to generate a BASE-VER in the toplevel (or have
> a @BASE-VER@ substitute).

that would be nice, but then maybe introduce another macro GCCSUBDIR for
gcc/<alias>/<version>.

Matthias

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