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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: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 18:10:24 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: making a 2.95.4 release
On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, David O'Brien wrote:
> Hello Jeff,
>
> As GCC 2.95 release engineer, would you please create a 2.95.4 release
> from the 'gcc-2_95-branch'? Considering the maturity of the branch, I
> cannot imagine this would take much more than creating the tarballs and
> putting them on ftp.gnu.org.
It would be nice if the problems the 2.95 branch has with compiling glibc
could be fixed - that might motivate me to have another go at a release.
There's also at least one bug report about miscompilations with 2.95.x.
> For various reason people are still downloading and using 2.95.3 to this
> day. GCC 3.x is also inappropriate for some of the BSD releases due to
> the major changes between 2.95->3.0. Just this week someone else was
> asking for a 2.95.4 release.
Why can't you just use the current sources on the branch for BSD?
What about gcc 3.1 which is about to be released?
Bernd