No more snapshots?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 03:25:40PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> 
> > > I believe that the snapshots broke when Daniel regenerated configure
> > > using autoconf 2.57.  I haven't looked into it in the hopes that it
> > > was related to the other problems he saw.
> > 
> > I couldn't think why this would have happened, so I tried building a
> > snapshot.  It worked OK.  So it must be something else?
> > 
> > The snapshot process involves "./configure sparc-sun-sunos4.1.1" in
> > what is probably an attempt to be host-neutral.  Oddly, I believe that
> > this will continue to work even with the new autoconf...
> 
> Grumble, I guess I'll actually have to do some work.
> 
> Snapshots aren't just built ad hoc, they use a particular script.
> That script is failing.  I just looked into it, and it's failing
> because the code which sets the version number of the snapshot to the
> current date is breaking because the format of the newly generated
> gas/configure file has changed slightly.
> 
> I fixed the script to accommodate the new format, and I'm building a
> snapshot now.

Is the script available somewhere, and any interest in putting it into
the repository?  I was guessing they used src-release, which is what I
use for releases, but I guess not.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer