Subject: Re: upgrading GCC 4.1 branch
To: None <tech-toolchain@netbsd.org, current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: current-users
Date: 02/04/2008 13:57:41
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:35:52PM -0800, Tom Spindler wrote:
> > > And, why don't we go straight to 4.2.3? :)
> >
> > GPLv3 and GCC 4.2 regressions.
>
> Could you please enumerate what the GPLv3 issues actually are?
> There was some talk about binutils' libbfd being GPLv3, which is noxious -
> but the last time I checked the gcc tree, none of {libgcc, crt?.o, et al}
> were GPLv3'ed.
It doesn't cover libgcc and crt*, but it is still present for the rest
of GCC. I would prefer we don't set a precedence, IMO.
Joerg