and my ship fades off into the nite

Jeff Johnston jjohnstn@redhat.com
Thu Mar 17 18:15:33 GMT 2022


On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 9:28 AM Joel Sherrill <joel@rtems.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 4:52 AM Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Mar 17 07:32, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> > > On 17/03/2022 04:15, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > just a heads up that i've largely "completed" the work that i intend
> > to on the
> > > > libgloss & newlib build systems.  hopefully people find it better off
> > than when
> > > > i started.  i'll still be around, so if i introduced a regression,
> i'm
> > happy to
> > > > take a look.  if people have questions, hopefully the documentation
> > updates i
> > > > merged will cover it, or i can explain things as needed.  but other
> > than the
> > > > few minor patches i've already posted, i don't have anything else
> > scheduled.
> > > > i'm off to find another project to procrastinate on instead.
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot for your great work in cleaning up and documenting the
> > Newlib
> > > build system. I think this was a really big step for Newlib
> > maintainability.
> >
> > I second that.  Getting newlib's build system up to speed like this is a
> > major improvement and tackling that was a heroic task.
> >
>
> Explaining it to Google Summer of Code students interested in adding
> some capability was very frustrating. It generally took a while before they
> could add anything.
>
> Speed improvements are always great but this was a huge win in the
> simplicity department.
>
>
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
> >
>
> This is very much appreciated.
>
> --joel
>
>
Definitely.  Thanks Mike for all your hard work.

-- Jeff J.

>
> >
> >
> > Corinna
> >
> >
>
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