On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Gerald Pfeifer <ger...@pfeifer.com> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Joseph S. Myers wrote: >> build.html was missing group write permission: >> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 gerald gcc 18920 Mar 30 2008 build.html >> >> This probably meant that the nightly onlinedocs update would fail to >> update it. I've now moved and copied the file so it now has group write >> access. So hopefully the next build will update it. > > Thanks for addressing this, Joseph! To make up for this... > >> Unfortunately the cron mails to gccadmin from that nightly update ceased >> regularly arriving in January 2008 (a few isolated ones have got through >> to the list since then), so any symptoms of this file not being updated >> that might appear in the output of that cron job will have been missed. >> I don't know if this is a message size limit, a spam check issue or >> something else (but reported it on the overseers list at the time). > > ...I investigated the issue a bit and found the following: > > The output of the update_web_docs_svn script is 1590406 byte, which > pretty much explains why the messages have not made it to the list, > I assume. > > One further observation I made is that this script is invoked via sh -x, > and 22029 of 31959 lines and 1046189 of 1590406 byte overall are due to > that. In other words, we owe two thirds of the output to sh -x. > > (This has been like this since the first version of this instances of > the script, revision 105483 by dberlin on 2005-10-17.)
I only made it work with SVN, so my guess is it was like this before, back in the cvs days as well > > I propose to address this by the patch below, but will wait a couple of > days (not the least until you are back) before making this change. This looks fine to me
