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Re: Adding zlib to GCC
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Subject: Re: Adding zlib to GCC
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:39:42 -0600
- cc: tromey at cygnus dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, cgf at cygnus dot com, green at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <20000827123119V.mitchell@codesourcery.com>you write:
> >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com> writes:
>
> Mark> I think we should use CVS modules, rather than actually
> Mark> combining all the repositories. Make zlib a module, include
> Mark> it in GCC and Cygwin.
>
> Tom> You can only use cvs modules for things that share a
> Tom> repository.
>
> Perhaps we're using different notions of repository. I thought the
> proposal was to actually create a grand unified source tree, such that
> you did something like `cvs co world' and got GCC, GDB, etc.
> I'm certainly in favor of using a single CVS repository (in the `cvs
> -d' sense); I'm just not sure about mushing all the packages together.
Long term I'd like to see this happen; however, recent developments with
the FSF lead me to believe this will meet with a fair amount of resistance
from RMS and the FSF in general.
jeff