Bug#472854: gnat-4.3 needs a manual build for mips and mipsel
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 10:44:33PM +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> Aurelien Jarno writes:
> > I have just checked-in a patch in the SVN to fix this problem.
>
> Thanks a lot! I'll upload it as part of 4.3.0-3 immediately after
> gcc-4.3 4.3.0-3.
>
> > BTW is there any reason to keep the MIPS support as a Debian patch
> > instead of forwarding it upstream? This problem would probably have
> > been avoided.
>
> Yes, there is a reason but it's a very bad one: lack of time to engage
> into the copyright-assignment procedure. The author of the mips
> support, Xavier Grave, is an occasional contributor to the Debian
> packages and has never contributed to GCC yet (CCing him).
>
> As a first step, since he now has a little time available, I've asked
> him to separate the mips support into a patch independent of ada-sjlj.
> That should make future submission to upstream easier.
I have seen this is now done, and I have made a few more changes to get
the MIPS support fully working.
I have copyright-assignements for GCC, we can probably submit this patch
with both our names if you agree.
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