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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Remove the bulk of the NaCl port.
- From: Rical Jasan <ricaljasan at pacific dot net>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 03:08:34 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Remove the bulk of the NaCl port.
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- References: <20170512003750.27215-1-zackw@panix.com>
On 05/11/2017 05:37 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> The NaCl port has not been actively maintained since before the 2.25
> release. The complementary GCC back-end was never contributed to GCC,
> and we are given to understand that the current NaCl SDK has switched
> to Clang and therefore cannot be used to build glibc anymore, so we
> doubt that the port remains useful.
>
> This patch simply removes the sysdeps/arm/nacl and sysdeps/nacl
> directories and the abi-tags entry, and mentions the removal in NEWS.
FYI, the wiki home page (at least) still references this port. Very
bottom of the page; https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/
Rical