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Re: Basic requirements for supporting OS and machine ports.
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs dot nagy at arm dot com>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>, Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf at mellanox dot com>, Chung-Lin Tang <chunglin_tang at mentor dot com>, Steven Munroe <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>, Andreas Krebbel <krebbel at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at gotplt dot org>, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32 dot net>, Adam Conrad <adconrad at 0c3 dot net>
- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 10:15:24 -0700
- Subject: Re: Basic requirements for supporting OS and machine ports.
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On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 04/18/2017 03:47 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>
>> (a) If your OS and machine port has build-many-glibcs.py support then all
>> maintainers will strive to ensure that their changes do not break
>> those
>> OS and machine combinations supported by the script, and will work to
>> correct any such past breakage.
>
>
> I don't want to see running build-many-glibcs.py as a requirement for
> posting patches. The main reason for that is that it's rather expensive
> (either you need to be very patient, or you need a fairly big machine).
I agree.
> What do you think about of out-of-tree GCC ports? Can we support targets
> which are not included in any upstream GCC version, only patches on top of
> an upstream version which already fell out of support?
>
> Thanks,
> Florian
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H.J.