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Re: making a 2.95.4 release
- From: Bernd Schmidt <bernds at redhat dot com>
- To: "David O'Brien" <obrien at FreeBSD dot org>
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:10:49 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: making a 2.95.4 release
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 07:46:36PM +0000, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> > > Why couldn't Red Hat do that in the EGCS 1.0 days?
> >
> > Do what, exactly?
>
> Why couldn't Red Hat use EGCS 1.0.2 + patches. Instead EGCS 1.0.3 as
> released for Red Hat's needs.
> http://gcc.gnu.org/egcs-1.0/egcs-1.0.3.html
> EGCS 1.0.3 is a minor update to the EGCS 1.0.2 compiler to fix a few
> problems reported by Red Hat for builds of Red Hat 5.1.
I don't really recall the history, but I'm guessing that the egcs-1.0
branch wasn't as ancient as 2.95 is these days, and fixing bugs that
showed up in a RH build was considered a good idea. Not sure it was made
"just for Red Hat's needs". If it was, the idea may have been to make it
possible for them to use egcs instead of gcc - the egcs project was fairly
new back then and getting one of the Linux distros to include it may have
been considered important to pick up more momentum. Just guessing.
Bernd