Re: cmake stuck on mips

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro%orcam.me.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2025, Havard Eidnes wrote:

> I passed this under mrg@'s nose, and he commented that it's
> probably unlikely that gcc14 for mips in pkgsrc will work, we are
> carrying around our own patches for our in-tree compiler which
> have evidently not been passed on upstream.  It would have been
> nice to not waste so much time...  Is there a particular reason
> which makes our mips adaptations unsuitable or unacceptable by
> the gcc maintainers?

 Have they ever been offered in the first place?

 If they're specific to the NetBSD configuration, then they should get
accepted right away, as long as basic stuff such as code formatting is 
correct, as it's NetBSD developers who are the experts here after all.

 If they apply to generic MIPS stuff or the middle end, then things may 
be a bit more involving, and in particular there has been no active MIPS 
GCC port maintainer recently.  But things can be sorted regardless, as 
long as they get actually posted.  There are people on the gcc-patches 
mailing list who have MIPS experience, myself including, and for the 
middle end we have active general maintainers.

 HTH,

  Maciej