Re: [PATCH v4 11/11] Add nds32 port to build-many-glibcs.py

[Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2019, Vincent Chen wrote:

> From: CheWei Chunang <cnoize@andestech.com>
> 
> The nds32 toochain cannot be generated successfully by this patch because
> the nds32 port of Binutils and GCC on upstream is too old. This patch is
> used to help reviewer to review the glibc port for Andes nds32 ISA.

For a new port to go into glibc, the upstream mainline versions of 
binutils / GCC / Linux kernel need to have all the features required to 
build the port and run tests with good results (even if release branches 
are too old to work well - though if it's just a matter of bug fixes, 
backporting those to release branches may be a good idea).  Ports 
depending on non-upstream changes to those components can't be accepted 
(we had trouble in the past with MicroBlaze and NaCl depending on things 
that weren't upstream, fixed by getting some MicroBlaze GCC patches 
upstream and removing the NaCl port; we don't want to go there again).

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com