From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gerald Pfeifer To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, egcs@cygnus.com Cc: "David O'Brien" , "P. van Leeuwen" , law@cygnus.com, Joe Buck Subject: Re: GCC Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 11:36:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <19980506010009.51285@nuxi.com> X-SW-Source: 1998-05/msg00197.html On Wed, 6 May 1998, David O'Brien wrote: > This has been fixed in the development branch since late March, but > for some reason wasn't brought into the "release" branch. The 1.0.x branch is quite stable, but essentially ``dead''. There will, however, soon be a new release branch 1.1.x from the current development branch. > It appears 1.0.3 is a Linux-only release as it only address problems > Linux users had. There (most probably) wouldn't have been a 1.0.3 hadn't RedHat decided to use egcs for its next distribution. egcs really isn't Linux-only or even Linux-centered -- Just look at the number of platforms the various contributors are using! -- but clearly this is a very good chance of getting good publicity and a wide distribution. Gerald -- Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry) Vienna University of Technology pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/