Re: cmake stuck on mips

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

On Wed, 16 Jul 2025, Havard Eidnes wrote:

> >  Have they ever been offered in the first place?
> 
> Possibly not.
> 
> It requires a certain combination of "first-hand knowledge of
> what those diffs do", "ability to possibly modify them to be
> applicable and acceptable upstream", "personal time and energy to
> see this through", "willingness to jump through any hoops
> required to be able to contribute code to the GCC project", and
> it's just possible that nobody has yet satisfied all those
> preconditions.  I was just (implicitly) bemoaning that.

 Completely understood.  The amount of effort required to get an upstream 
submission through may seem overwhelming for a newcomer, but local patch 
maintenance usually turns out costlier long-term.

 Also the GCC community is perhaps the friendliest ever nowadays towards 
new people.  And one needn't do copyright paperwork with FSF anymore if 
they are not happy with that; a DCO will do.

 See <https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GettingStarted> for how to start.

> >  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.
> 
> Understood.
> 
> I'm just hoping someone could take this up as a challenge -- a
> "worthy cause" so to speak, as it ideally ought to reduce our own
> maintenance burden when new gcc versions are to be integrated
> into our own code base.

 Precisely!  I can see we're on the same page then.  Good luck!

  Maciej