Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 17:45:58 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com>, current@FreeBSD.org, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: i386 tinderbox failure Message-ID: <20021009004558.GA15075@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20021008231042.247562A88D@canning.wemm.org> References: <20021008224042.GA13880@dragon.nuxi.com> <20021008231042.247562A88D@canning.wemm.org>
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On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 04:10:42PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > "David O'Brien" wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 03:55:36PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > > Could you please just commit this on the vendor branch if it is the > > > vendor fix for now. Since the next vendor import will contain the > > > fix you don't need to worry about maintaining the local patch so > > > committing it onto the vendor branch is ok. > > > > Doing this screws up diffs to vendor source as there won't be a tag that > > corisponds with this across all files. For small contribed things that > > is OK. But when doing large ones it the following import+merge becomes > > harder. > > While that is true, it usually isn't all that big a deal if you are careful > and keep track of what you've done. It is certainly better than causing > the file to leave the vendor branch for something you *know* is now in the > vendor tree. And I think its better than leaving a known 'compiler crash' > case there to bite developers. I'm hoping for another 3.2.1 import soon. I raised some hell on the GCC lists last week about the quality of 3.2.1; and actually got some Athlon and p4 optimization PR's taken care of. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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