On 7 August 2011 01:16, Nathan Ridge wrote: > > Hello, > > I understand there are several differences between the format > of release packages (e.g. ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/releases/gcc-4.6.1/) > and snapshot packages (e.g. ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/LATEST-4.7): > > - the release packages are divided into components (core, language frontends, > test suite) while in the snapshot package everything is in one place > - the release packages have some generated files (by Flex and Texinfo) > that the snapshot packages do not > > How would I go about preparing a package of the release format from > a package of the snapshot format? Both releases and snapshots are generated using the file maintainer-scripts/gcc_release, you should be able to look in there to see how the processes differ.
