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From: Chris Sutcliffe <ir0nh34d@gmail.com>
To: Cygwin-apps <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: GCC maintainer volunteer?
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGHJv4cVjL8iDHoVkv-ThZPvNAkx3ce6YTr01E4ZHKwsM0YE7Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF1jjLspKdRJm75yOGLyif_U4u4qbYAhnrn6iL+TQRRw9sjtsg@mail.gmail.com>

On 21 February 2013 10:38, NightStrike wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 3:42 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Feb 21 21:33, JonY wrote:
>>> On 2/21/2013 20:40, NightStrike wrote:
>>> >> I've started looking at the patches, they definitely aren't trivial.
>>> >> I'll probably be releasing it as experimental.
>>> >
>>> > There are local cygwin patches to gcc?
>>> >
>>>
>>> Yes, about 100KB of it. I confess I don't know what most of is for, my
>>> understanding of the gcc internals are limited.
>>
>> I assume some (or all) of them are already upstream, but they were not
>> backported into the 4.5.x branch.  It might be a good idea to start out
>> with a clean upstream build and then look into the patches if they still
>> make some sense.
>
> Are they in 4.6?  If so, why not just start fresh and clean with a 4.6
> 'chain that needs zero patching?

I believe Corinna means going to later version of GCC, preferably
straight to 4.7 would be great.

Chris

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-21 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-23 17:16 Changing dependent library version numbers vs. test packages vs. requires: lines Dave Korn
2012-11-24  5:54 ` marco atzeri
2012-11-24  9:48   ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-01-14 16:50 ` Chris Sutcliffe
2013-01-18 13:32   ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-02-04 10:17     ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-02-18 23:59       ` Chris Sutcliffe
2013-02-19  7:46         ` GCC maintainer volunteer? (was Re: Changing dependent library version numbers vs. test packages vs. requires: lines.) Corinna Vinschen
2013-02-19 10:22           ` JonY
2013-02-19 11:46             ` Yaakov
2013-02-19 12:53               ` JonY
2013-02-21 11:53                 ` JonY
2013-02-21 12:40                   ` NightStrike
2013-02-21 13:34                     ` GCC maintainer volunteer? JonY
2013-02-21 13:42                       ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-02-21 13:47                         ` JonY
2013-02-21 15:39                         ` NightStrike
2013-02-21 16:31                           ` Chris Sutcliffe [this message]
2013-02-21 16:59                             ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-02-21 21:48                               ` JonY
2013-02-21 23:48                                 ` marco atzeri
2013-02-22  5:21                                 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-02-22  8:39                                   ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-02-22  7:31                               ` Yaakov
2013-02-22  8:38                                 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-02-22  9:18                                 ` JonY
2013-02-23 15:04                                   ` JonY
2013-02-23 15:46                                     ` Ken Brown
2013-02-24  1:12                                       ` JonY
2013-02-24  1:39                                         ` Ken Brown
2013-02-24  2:02                                           ` JonY
2013-02-24  4:55                                             ` Christopher Faylor
2013-02-24  5:22                                               ` Chris Sutcliffe
2013-02-25 14:40                                               ` JonY
2013-02-25 18:22                                                 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-02-27 12:06                                                 ` JonY
2013-02-27 13:11                                                   ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-02-27 13:29                                                     ` JonY
2013-02-27 13:59                                                       ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-02-27 22:24                                                         ` JonY
2013-02-28  0:28                                                           ` marco atzeri
2013-02-28 10:05                                                         ` Yaakov
2013-02-28 17:06                                                           ` NightStrike
2013-02-28 19:44                                                             ` Yaakov
2013-03-06 10:29                                               ` Yaakov
2013-03-06 10:41                                                 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-03-06 16:14                                                   ` Christopher Faylor

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