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Re: Compiler for Red Hat Linux 8
- To: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>
- Subject: Re: Compiler for Red Hat Linux 8
- From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:56:52 +0200
- CC: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>, Joern Rennecke <amylaar at redhat dot com>, Geoff Keating <geoffk at redhat dot com>, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>, "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
- References: <200107182223.PAA08726@atrus.synopsys.com>
Joe Buck wrote:
> David Edelsohn writes:
> > Even if you do not try to find a way to use the FSF GCC sources as
> > your base, I hope that you will consider the request from numerous corners
> > that the version of GCC included in Red Hat Linux 8 be compatible with FSF
> > GCC releases.
>
> It was clear to me from Geoff's message that folks at Red Hat are thinking
> about the compatibility issue.
>
> I wouldn't seek to overconstrain Red Hat; any of several mechanisms with
> respect to branches may be just fine and choosing what's best is the task
> of the developers that do the work. It would be easiest for all of us in
> the long run, however (including Red Hat folks), if the delta between what
> Red Hat ships and what others have is never too large. Forking off at
> some point from the 3.0 branch to give a controlled, supportable set of
> code that won't be too far from FSF 3.0.x might be a good way to do that,
> but perhaps a decent ia64 backend needs newer code that is in RH's
> internal tree but not the FSF tree.
Yes, but what I read from Geoff's message just before this one is that
RH's system compiler will most probably be derived from the 3.1 trunk.
<QUOTE>
5. We would prefer to ship a newer compiler than something off the 3.0
branch. By the time that this release goes out, the 3.0 branch
will be over a year old. You'll note that RHL 7.2 is not out yet,
and on the normal schedule RHL 8 will be about six months later.
</QUOTE>
The problem with that move would be that they make a release branch off
the 3.1 trunk (say within two months), and we have to hope that *we*
won't introduce incompatible changes in the time up to April 15, 2002,
the projected release date for 3.1.
I'm professionally involved with predicting the future, but I tend to
limit it to two days ahead ;-)
[ I agree with Joe's remark about constraining Red Hat - I don't have
the inclination or the time to micro-manage GNU/Linux distributors ]
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