Re: A new parallel buld patch

["H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 12:45:06PM -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> 
>   > You don't have to.  You just have to deal with the team of GCC
>   > maintainers, posting patches with ChangeLog entries and textual
>   > explanations of the problems they're supposed to fix.  Jeff is not the
>   > only one who can approve or disapprove patches.  GCC is not maintained
>   > by a single person.
> Precisely.  This is critical for everyone to remember.  When we revamped
> the project's structure nearly 3 years ago, one of the key goals was to remove
> the single point of failure or single choke point for patches.
> 

That is not true. I am sorry I have to resort this. I had kept silent
for many months. This is from someone you know:

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On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, H . J . Lu wrote:
>>> Wed Nov 10 08:52:17 1999  H.J. Lu  <hjl@gnu.org>
>>>
>>>         * Makefile.in (bootstrap): Unset LANG_LIB2FUNCS for stage 1.
> http://egcs.cygnus.com/ml/gcc-patches/1999-11/msg00369.html
>
>>> Thu Oct 28 08:21:13 1999  H.J. Lu  <hjl@gnu.org>
>>>
>>>         * Make-lang.in (cplib2.ready): Also depend on cc1plus$(exeext).
> http://egcs.cygnus.com/ml/gcc/1999-10/msg00700.html
> http://egcs.cygnus.com/ml/gcc-patches/1999-10/msg00751.html

Thanks! I had a look and it appears to *my* eyes that these should be
okay, but unfortunately I cannot/must not approve such patches.

> I know Jeff doesn't like me at all. That may be one reason why they
> are not installed. Unless someone else says they are ok, they will not
> be installed.

I noticed that there is a, hmm, somewhat bad mood between you and Jeff.
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H.J.