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Re: Want to be a gcc/binutils maintainer?


ahh hmmm ...
interested yes ...

upto the challenge... - hmmm ... any suggestions on how to work out if i am
capable?
I have reasonable coding skills ... know 'enough' about cvs to do anything i
have had to so far... diff and patch are pretty simple in so far as I have
seen and used...  On the otherhand I dont yet know much automake/autoconf,
other then how to run them and my makefile knowledge is scratchy.  But given
a reason I am good a picking things up...

*ponders downloading a few source packages to see how they currently stand*

Gareth
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: Want to be a gcc/binutils maintainer?


> I got a couple of nibbles about this before.
>
> Anyone interested in this exciting and challenging responsibility?
>
> cgf
>
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 11:04:05PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >I picked up gcc and binutils maintainership because the previous people
> >who had been doing it sort of went silent.
> >
> >Maintaining these packages is not something that I want to do, however.
> >
> >Is anyone else interested in doing this?
> >
> >Maintaining binutils is relatively easy.  I have one small patch that I
> >keep in the distribution.  It received some inexplicable resistance from
> >binutils maintainers but I could probably push it in, if I had to.
> >
> >Maintaining gcc is harder due to the fact that you can't just build and
> >release the FSF release.  There are several additional patches required
> >that, for some reason, the gcc maintainers don't seem to want to apply.
> >
> >There are also some patches that I've made to gcc to allow the
> >-mno-cygwin option to work better.  I doubt that they would be accepted
> >in the mainline gcc.  These currently are pretty 2.95.3 specific.
> >
> >Now that I've scared everyone off, is anyone interested in maintaining
> >the cygwin gcc release?
> >
> >FWIW, I can still be of some help in my capacity as FSF gcc cygwin
> >maintainer so I can get changes into the cygwin/mingw versions of gcc.
> >
> >If I don't hear from anyone here, I'm going to push this request to
> >the cygwin mailing list, too.
> >
> >cgf
>
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