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 > > -- > Jan-Benedict Glaw jbg...@lug-owl.de +49-172-7608481 > Signature of: Don't believe in miracles: Rely on them! > the second : > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAlCpf00ACgkQHb1edYOZ4bthiACcDgQPpDPVsfi3JmVvrGvBGxB/ > JEMAnAsmA3OMwBZEjyuQP5yGVrTBF1Nx > =CzKB > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >