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Re: Compiler for Red Hat Linux 8
- To: Joern Rennecke <amylaar at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Compiler for Red Hat Linux 8
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 18:12:28 -0400
- cc: geoffk at redhat dot com (Geoff Keating), jbuck at synopsys dot COM (Joe Buck), aj at suse dot de (Andreas Jaeger), hjl at lucon dot org (H . J . Lu), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
>>>>> Joern Rennecke writes:
Joern> Why should we (FSF gcc developers) have a GNU/Linux GCC branch? Why not
Joern> use the latest release branch. Then the patches will automatically be
Joern> included in the next bug fix release.
We already have a new mechanism for development that includes
doing major development on a branch. Why not consider GCC for Red Hat
Linux 8 a similar situation. Branches in the GCC CVS repository are more
than just release branches.
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.
Regards, David