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Re: FYI: FreeBSD 5 has imported gcc 3.2 + branch patches
- From: "David O'Brien" <obrien at FreeBSD dot org>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 20:58:41 -0700
- Subject: Re: FYI: FreeBSD 5 has imported gcc 3.2 + branch patches
- Organization: The NUXI BSD Group
- References: <200209110014.g8B0EbR0025613@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com>
- Reply-to: obrien at FreeBSD dot org
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 07:14:37PM -0500, Loren James Rittle wrote:
> The FreeBSD
> project attempts to build over 5000 software packages nightly (or
> weekly?) against this system compiler configuration.
8000 actually -- takes about 2 days now I think.
Also we are using GCC 3.2.1 not only on x86, but also Alpha and sparc64.
So FreeBSD is also doing test coverage for those two arches as well.
> Alternatively, if the above process doesn't work in a timely fashion,
> the FreeBSD system compiler repository will begin to collect patches
> from FSF mainline as required (and perhaps additional non-FSF patches)
> but no one else using 3.2.X will gain the benefits. IMHO, this
> situation would really be in no one's interest.
>
> Regards,
> Loren
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
Disclaimer: Not speaking for FreeBSD, just expressing my own opinion.
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