Re: and my ship fades off into the nite

[Joel Sherrill <joel@rtems.org>]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 4:52 AM Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Mar 17 07:32, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> > On 17/03/2022 04:15, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > just a heads up that i've largely "completed" the work that i intend
> to on the
> > > libgloss & newlib build systems.  hopefully people find it better off
> than when
> > > i started.  i'll still be around, so if i introduced a regression, i'm
> happy to
> > > take a look.  if people have questions, hopefully the documentation
> updates i
> > > merged will cover it, or i can explain things as needed.  but other
> than the
> > > few minor patches i've already posted, i don't have anything else
> scheduled.
> > > i'm off to find another project to procrastinate on instead.
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your great work in cleaning up and documenting the
> Newlib
> > build system. I think this was a really big step for Newlib
> maintainability.
>
> I second that.  Getting newlib's build system up to speed like this is a
> major improvement and tackling that was a heroic task.
>

Explaining it to Google Summer of Code students interested in adding
some capability was very frustrating. It generally took a while before they
could add anything.

Speed improvements are always great but this was a huge win in the
simplicity department.


>
> Thanks a lot!
>

This is very much appreciated.

--joel



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