No more snapshots?

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:

> > 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.

There is no ``they,'' there's just me.  The script is
    ~ian/bin/binutils-snapshot
which invokes the script
    ~ian/bin/binutils-cvs-snapshot
Both files are on sourceware.org aka sources.redhat.com.  The
binutils-snapshot script is invoked by my crontab.

The script does use src-release to make the actual tar ball, but it
has to do a bit more than that also.

I don't think the script really belongs in the binutils repository,
because it's fairly sourceware specific.  But I can check it into the
sourceware infra repository if that would be helpful.

Ian