xz instead of bzip2

2017-06-05 Thread Matias Fonzo
Dear GCC developers, What happens here ! "Weekly snapshots now use xz compression [2017-05-24] ...instead of bzip2." Are you aware that a better implementation / format exists for this purposes?: http://lzip.nongnu.org/ Review of xz: http://lzip.nongnu.org/xz_inadequate.html Ple

Re: xz instead of bzip2

2017-06-05 Thread Matias Fonzo
On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 20:24:50 +0200 Andreas Schwab wrote: > On Jun 05 2017, Matias Fonzo wrote: > > > Dear GCC developers, > > > > What happens here ! > > > > "Weekly snapshots now use xz compression [2017-05-24] > > ...instead of bzip2."

Fw: xz instead of bzip2

2017-06-05 Thread Matias Fonzo
Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 20:17:57 -0300 From: Matias Fonzo To: R0b0t1 Subject: Re: xz instead of bzip2 On Mon, 5 Jun 2017 15:44:25 -0500 R0b0t1 wrote: > On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Matias Fonzo > wrote: > > Dear GCC developers, > > >

Re: Steering committee, please, consider using lzip instead of xz

2017-06-07 Thread Matias Fonzo
On Wed, 7 Jun 2017 15:25:26 -0700 Matthias Klose wrote: > On 07.06.2017 13:25, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: > > Dear GCC steering committee, > > > > This has been recently asked in this list[1], but in case you have > > missed it because of a subject line not explicit enough, I would > > like to app

Re: Steering committee, please, consider using lzip instead of xz

2017-06-07 Thread Matias Fonzo
On Wed, 7 Jun 2017 17:18:49 -0600 Jeff Law wrote: > On 06/07/2017 02:25 PM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: > > Dear GCC steering committee, > > > > This has been recently asked in this list[1], but in case you have > > missed it because of a subject line not explicit enough, I would > > like to appeal

Re: Steering committee, please, consider using lzip instead of xz

2017-06-08 Thread Matias Fonzo
On Thu, 8 Jun 2017 11:42:48 +0200 Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 11:27:30AM +0200, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: > > Gzip was once ubiquituous in distro packages and it was replaced. > > But this time distros won't lead the change because they can work > > around the main defects of xz

Re: CFLAGS for the host in canadian cross build

2017-11-06 Thread Matias Fonzo
On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 10:30:14 -0800 Max Filippov wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to build a canadian cross compiler with build == > x86_64-linux, host == xtensa-linux and target == xtensa-linux. I need > to specify an xtensa-specific flag in CFLAGS that will be applied to > the host binary. > > I

Re: CFLAGS for the host in canadian cross build

2017-11-06 Thread Matias Fonzo
On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 11:51:34 -0800 Max Filippov wrote: > On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Matias Fonzo > wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 10:30:14 -0800 > > Max Filippov wrote: > [..] > >> > >> If CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS is the right place for the option, how can th