On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 05:35:58PM +0100, Daniel Widenfalk wrote: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 03:24:42AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > >>On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 06:04:00PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >> > >>The fact you don't have anyone able to make a working cross-compiler > >>speaks somewhat poorly of the support available for the m68k toolchain, > >>too. > > > > > >The issues with producing a working cross-compiler that I hit against > >were not m68k-specific. Also, they may or may not have been fixed in the > >mean time; I know for a fact that there is no updated toolchain-source > >package available, but there've been a few upstream updates in the mean > >time, and I didn't go out and check them anymore (since my previous > >attempts failed) > > Toolchain-source is currently being worked on and should soon be > ready for testing and policy compiliance.
I know, I've seen your mails to -gcc (and other places). I'll add that I'm grateful for that; the toolchain-source package really is helpful if you need a cross-compiler, and I hate it that my cross-compilers have been pushed off my laptop by a recent gcc update. Thanks for working on this :-) Just for clarity however, because there seems to be a significant amount of confusion around this: The recent changes to release policy have moved the responsibility of making sure the toolchain works on every architecture from the toolchain packages' maintainers to the porters. That's fine; it's only fair that porters make sure the toolchain works on their port, but on the other hand it does introduce work for us porters. Starting to use a cross-compiler would, additionally, require us to make sure the upstream cross-build system works, and keeps working; if at some point it does not when there's a major gcc upgrade, we'll be in deep trouble. This is a serious additional burden, one I don't agree would be fair to expect of us; if our port would die because someone upstream thought it would be better to release now with a broken build system than to wait another five months to fix it, well. See my problem? -- .../ -/ ---/ .--./ / .--/ .-/ .../ -/ ../ -./ --./ / -.--/ ---/ ..-/ .-./ / -/ ../ --/ ./ / .--/ ../ -/ ..../ / -../ ./ -.-./ ---/ -../ ../ -./ --./ / --/ -.--/ / .../ ../ --./ -./ .-/ -/ ..-/ .-./ ./ .-.-.-/ / --/ ---/ .-./ .../ ./ / ../ .../ / ---/ ..-/ -/ -../ .-/ -/ ./ -../ / -/ ./ -.-./ ..../ -./ ---/ .-../ ---/ --./ -.--/ / .-/ -./ -.--/ .--/ .-/ -.--/ .-.-.-/ / ...-.-/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
