From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Wilson To: egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: 970825 Snapshot Available Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 01:43:01 -0000 Message-ID: <199708260143.SAA04797@cygnus.com> In-reply-to: 970825 Snapshot Available X-SW-Source: 1997-08/0472.html Message-ID: <19970826014301.ceBKep2O7ztJSAnY_JGUltopgvR3JCMAXmCzHL2XJio@z> What happened to my SMP patch? There have so many people reporting bugs, submitting patches, etc, that it has been impossible to handle them all in a timely fashion. I expect that things will get better soon, once we get past the initial surge caused by the project startup. There is also the problem that I am new at this, and still trying to figure out how to deal with all of the email, prioritize work, etc. So far, I have been concentrating on the build problems. I wanted to get as many as possible of the serious build problems fixed early, so that more people would be able to try egcs. This is also important since we are planning on making an initial release sometime within the next few weeks. I just today started looking at the various patches that have been submitted since the project started. I am already working on your SMP patch. I expect to check it in today unchanged. My only comment is to notice that the f/runtime Makefile is missing dependencies. If one of the lib*77 libraries is updated, libf2c.a won't be updated. There were some partial dependencies for this before your change, but they were flawed, so I does appear that they should be removed. Still, it seems that this should be fixed someday. The build cannot be done without it on an SMP machine. I wasn't aware of that. I thought it was a problem only if you used the -j option. If -jN N!=1 is the default, can't you simply work around this by using -j1? Jim