Re: Want to be a gcc/binutils maintainer?

[egor duda <deo at logos-m dot ru>]

Hi!

Wednesday, 07 November, 2001 Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com wrote:

CF> I got a couple of nibbles about this before.

CF> Anyone interested in this exciting and challenging responsibility?

well, i'm interested. that doesn't mean i'm sure i'm capable, though
:)

i'm now in process of debugging and fixing regressions in -3_0 and
-current branches, but, i still haven't looked at -mno-cygwin and
dll-specific stuff.

i wonder if we can create a branch in gcc cvs tree to make
cygwin-specific gcc development process a bit more "public"?

for instance, this patch

2001-11-07  Egor Duda  <deo@logos-m.ru>

        * config/i386/cygwin.h: Strip leading '*' from name, if any.

Index: gcc/config/i386/cygwin.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/home/deo/cvsroot/cvs-mirrors/sourceware/gcc/gcc/config/i386/cygwin.h,v
retrieving revision 1.33.2.15
diff -u -p -2 -r1.33.2.15 cygwin.h
--- gcc/config/i386/cygwin.h    2001/10/26 04:25:00     1.33.2.15
+++ gcc/config/i386/cygwin.h    2001/11/06 21:10:16
@@ -356,4 +356,5 @@ do {                                                                        \
   const char *_p;                                                      \
   const char *_name = I386_PE_STRIP_ENCODING (SYMBOL_NAME);            \
+  if (*_name == '*') _name++;                                          \
   for (_p = _name; *_p && *_p != '@'; ++_p)                            \
     ;                                                                  \

fixes one of testsuite regressions in 3_0 and make it possible to
build -current natively. I don't know, though, if it's correct way to
deal with this particular problem.

CF> On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 11:04:05PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>I picked up gcc and binutils maintainership because the previous people
>>who had been doing it sort of went silent.
>>
>>Maintaining these packages is not something that I want to do, however.
>>
>>Is anyone else interested in doing this?

Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19