From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 19 13: 5:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B880637B400; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:05:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5366543E4A; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:05:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0621.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.200.111] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17gsmd-0005Kc-00; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:05:51 -0700 Message-ID: <3D614F67.769B9560@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:04:55 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: Alexander Kabaev , Scott_Long@adaptec.com, jesse_gross@yahoo.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GCC 3.2 References: <2C7CBDC6EA58D6119E4A00065B3A24CB046493@btcexc01.btc.adaptec.com> <20020815152703.2f0f23e1.ak03@gte.com> <3D5C21C3.7A848926@mindspring.com> <20020815180723.00a5a83d.ak03@gte.com> <3D5C2F93.BE3BE8B0@mindspring.com> <20020819171325.GA29577@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien wrote: > > > > And we all know how successful that was, right? > > > > > > On the other side, we all know how successfull we were trying to get GCC > > > 2.95.x bugs fixed for us, right? Do you really want to repeat this > > > deeply satisfying experiment again? > > > > That was because the patches were not being submitted back > > against the unadulterated distribution code someone who had > > signed the assignment of rights to the FSF. > > Blah Terry, TOTALLY 110% INCORRECT. The situation was the same as our > FreeBSD 3.x users that still post PR's against RELENG_3 and want us to > fix things. Even where there was complete patches against 2.94.3 > available; the issue for the GCC people was one of not willing to spend > the effort to re-test on all platforms. Same reason we don't upgrade > RELENG_3 to the latest openssl (or any other lib) -- who knows what else > would break that depended on version that is there now. I thought that this was true for the LD, but not true for the GCC. I think this is a different problem here, since this was a specific reference to GCC 2.95. I definitely agree that this was an issue for the linker; the 2.95 was, I thought, never that much out of date, at the time the FreeBSD specific patches were initially made. > > The inability to get patches into 2.95 is totally unrelated > > to the fact that it was an older GCC, and completely related > > to the fact that the patches were not submitted in accordance > > with the GCC maintainer's guidelines, > > WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, WRONG !!! It *was* an older GCC?!? Now I'm confused. We *are* talking about the a.out shared library support, right? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message