------- Comment #6 from malitzke at metronets dot com 2006-06-06 03:59 ------- Good to see the GCC release manager looking at things from a user perspective, and not just looking at an individual leaf in a forest.
Regarding the powerpc specific issues; I was able for just one day to compile a complete glibc package. Now, after major work on mainline binutils (the one with daily snapshots on ftp:gcc.gnu.org) It can not even pass a significant portion of its own testsuite (while the ix86 build does fine). After having been repeatedly told that the user community should not bother the _illustrious_ glibc developers with build problems I have refrained from contacting the binutils folks. The steering committee, wisely, has recognized that the gcc group can __not__ contnuously and exhaustively test all software changes on the __vast__ array of hardware configurations and thus has sought help from the user community. The operating principle being that ""All bugs are shallow if there are thousands of eyes looking "" (imperfect quote). -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26175
