Basic requirements for supporting OS and machine ports.

[Joseph Myers]

On Fri, 21 Apr 2017, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> So it sounds like you don't object to the basic requirements, just that
> supporting the basic requirements needs more infrastructure work.
> 
> Could we then just agree on *one* basic requirement? That the machine
> and OS have build-many-glibcs.py support?

I don't object to a requirement of the form: new (machine, OS, ABI) 
configurations are expected to have such support contributed when the 
configuration support is added, and without such support there is no 
expectation that developers will help fix any build or build-time-test 
problems their patches may cause on the configurations lacking such 
support.

This does not impose an ordering in which people must get support for 
their (machine, OS, ABI) into various toolchain / kernel components, but 
if e.g. the glibc support goes in before the kernel support, the build 
with build-many-glibcs.py won't actually work and so there is no 
expectation of people fixing build problems until all the relevant support 
is upstream.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com