On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>> Maybe we can remove DATESTAMP and updating it now that
>>> gcc_update understands to extract the SVN revision number?
>> Anyway, removing DATESTAMP would change the issue to new snapshots with no
>> changes rather than with just DATESTAMP changes.
> My regression hunt script has
> 
>   # Get the new checkins since the last revision.
>   svn log -r$LAST_REVISION:$REV $REP_URL |
>     egrep -v "^r$LAST_REVISION" |
>     egrep -v "gccadmin" |
>     egrep "^r[0-9]+" > rev.log
> 
>   # Check if rev.log is empty.
>   if [ ! -s rev.log ]; then
>     echo No new checkins since revision $LAST_REVISION!
>     rm -f lock
>     exit 0
>   fi
> 
> Of course, you have to remember the revision when
> the last snapshot was made.

We already have LATEST-4.X symlinks under ~ftp/pub/gcc/snapshots which
point to the latest snapshot of the 4.X release branch.  We could easily
add LATEST-4.X-REVISION files which contain the SVN revision number.

I'd be in favor of that.  Does anyone have strong objections?

Would you like to give it a try?

Gerald

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