Basic requirements for supporting OS and machine ports.

[H.J. Lu]

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.