Re: Remove RMS from the GCC Steering Committee

2021-03-30 Thread Andrew Sutton via Gcc
Are you still responding to me? Your response reads like a thinly veiled threat. Angry friends on a jihad? Sounds serious. On Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 7:14 PM Christopher Dimech wrote: > > I have some friends in this movement who have been getting rather angry > recently. There is a lot of anger in t

Re: A suggestion for going forward from the RMS/FSF debate

2021-04-18 Thread Andrew Sutton via Gcc
> > > Of computer science graduates I have encountered over the last decade, I > > know few who started their journey with gcc and they were all in the > > initial part of the decade. In recent years I don't think I encountered > > any student who works on gcc; many even start with the assumption

Re: Sourceware mitigating and preventing the next xz-backdoor

2024-04-05 Thread Andrew Sutton via Gcc
> > > > > I think the key difference here is that Autotools allows arbitrarily > generated code to be executed at any time. More modern build systems > require the use of specific commands/files to run arbitrary code, e.g. > CMake (IIRC [`execute_process()`][2] and [`ExternalProject`][3]), Meson >