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Re: Want to be a gcc/binutils maintainer?
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Want to be a gcc/binutils maintainer?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 00:22:02 -0500
- References: <20010908230405.A17395@redhat.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
I got a couple of nibbles about this before.
Anyone interested in this exciting and challenging responsibility?
cgf
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 11:04:05PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>I picked up gcc and binutils maintainership because the previous people
>who had been doing it sort of went silent.
>
>Maintaining these packages is not something that I want to do, however.
>
>Is anyone else interested in doing this?
>
>Maintaining binutils is relatively easy. I have one small patch that I
>keep in the distribution. It received some inexplicable resistance from
>binutils maintainers but I could probably push it in, if I had to.
>
>Maintaining gcc is harder due to the fact that you can't just build and
>release the FSF release. There are several additional patches required
>that, for some reason, the gcc maintainers don't seem to want to apply.
>
>There are also some patches that I've made to gcc to allow the
>-mno-cygwin option to work better. I doubt that they would be accepted
>in the mainline gcc. These currently are pretty 2.95.3 specific.
>
>Now that I've scared everyone off, is anyone interested in maintaining
>the cygwin gcc release?
>
>FWIW, I can still be of some help in my capacity as FSF gcc cygwin
>maintainer so I can get changes into the cygwin/mingw versions of gcc.
>
>If I don't hear from anyone here, I'm going to push this request to
>the cygwin mailing list, too.
>
>cgf
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