Re: [PATCH] Add support for GNU/Hurd in gnat-4.9
- To: Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com>
- Cc: Arnaud Charlet <charlet@adacore.com>, Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@adacore.com>, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, debian-ada <debian-ada@lists.debian.org>, Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for GNU/Hurd in gnat-4.9
- From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 10:03:40 +0200
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Svante Signell, le Wed 21 May 2014 09:49:59 +0200, a écrit :
> Thomas and Samuel: It looks like upstream don't accept patches unless a
> Hurd port maintainer commits to it. What's the use of all this job?
Well, simply to keep the changes working. That is not surprising at all.
> (Of course it can at least run on Debian systems if/when accepted.)
Sure, but will it continue working on the long term? That's the concern
of upstream.
In principle it's just a matter of fixing just a few things over the
coming versions. But someone has to do it, otherwise the port will just
die.
Samuel
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