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it may be that i've just misunderstood the fundamental nature of a crosstool "patch." until now, i've always thought of it as an actual bug or deficiency in a particular package that is corrected (ideally temporarily) by a crosstool patch. (the CT web page strongly implies that patches are created to address actual errors: "Each patch starts off with links to the appropriate discussions and/or bug reports, and shows the error it fixes." so far, so good. in a perfect world, you would of course try to push those patches upstream so that they're eventually incorporated which means, over time, you'd like to see the number of patches being reduced steadily as the version number increases. (yes, i'm flogging the obvious.) however, in looking at those arch-dependent makefiles, it wasn't clear to me that setting the compile options was an actual error. i had assumed that, since the kernel programmers put that in, it was there for a purpose, so it wasn't really a bug. with that understanding, it seemed to me that creating a patch for that wouldn't be so much addressing an actual error as simply "hacking" a software package to make it crosstool-compatible, and that's what i thought was going on. if those options are actually bad things, then i have no objection to the notion of a patch to get rid of them. but does the concept of a patch also extend to simply modifying a perfectly working package so that crosstool can work with it? rday ------ Want more information? See the CrossGCC FAQ, http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/ Want to unsubscribe? Send a note to crossgcc-unsubscribe@sources.redhat.com
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