Re: Samuel: Do you have permission to _enable_ the gccgo patches again?
On Mon, 2018-03-26 at 19:42 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Svante Signell, on lun. 26 mars 2018 19:20:04 +0200, wrote:
> >
> > What is really wrong is that Matthias Klose removed the Hurd patches.
>
> Sure, but see what he wrote in the changlog: he found the patches
> "unmaintained", i.e. I guess he got an issue with it, and couldn't
> afford spending the time to fix it, and thus just dropped them. That's
> only normal for something that hasn't been upstreamed so far.
Me being AFK for a month gives him reason to claim the the patches are un-
maintined. Not nice :(
> > Adding them back is a piece of cake for you (or him), see #894080.
>
> It's not: it means sorting out from your three mails what actually needs
> checking in, understanding what you mean by
> “
> Finding the reverting commit and applying it
> gcc.git-b12c2c48c2c6aa1db9e6c50f6b26330deeee9caf.patch gcc+gccgo builds
> fine again.
> ”
> whether it's something that needs to be done on top of the patches,
> scratching one's head whether “I will report the build status when the
> latest version is built. (an eventually provide updated patches)” means
> one should wait for that to happen etc.
All this stuff is from earlier mails. Additionally the versions built with the
patches were reported.
> Then eventually try to build the whole thing, possibly realize it
> doesn't actually build, etc. etc. Not a piece of cake, really.
As I wrote in that bug report, all needed patches are there. And as the bug
report says: gcc-8 (8-8-20180321-1 and earlier) was successfully built.
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