making a 2.95.4 release

[Bernd Schmidt]

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