From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28689 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2007 14:01:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 28669 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Aug 2007 14:01:37 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from jess.glam.ac.uk (HELO jess.glam.ac.uk) (193.63.147.97) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:01:32 +0000 Received: from j228-gm.comp.glam.ac.uk ([193.63.148.84]) by jess.glam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1IGEks-0006RY-00; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:00:50 +0100 Received: from gaius by j228-gm.comp.glam.ac.uk with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IGEf6-00051P-Mm; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:54:52 +0100 From: Gaius Mulley To: Jim Blandy Cc: Eli Zaretskii , deuling@de.ibm.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unbounded array support implemented (for Modula-2) References: <874pjs57zg.fsf@j228-gm.comp.glam.ac.uk> <46A847CE.7030907@de.ibm.com> <87ir866ocg.fsf@j228-gm.comp.glam.ac.uk> <87r6mqif61.fsf@j228-gm.comp.glam.ac.uk> <871weops83.fsf@j228-gm.comp.glam.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:01:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Jim Blandy's message of "Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:47:09 -0700") Message-ID: <87bqdrweab.fsf@j228-gm.comp.glam.ac.uk> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-08/txt/msg00007.txt.bz2 Jim Blandy writes: > I don't know how much work this is, but if there were some way you > could get GNU Modula-2 into Fedora Core or Fedora Extras, I think that > might increase your audience a bit. These days, if I can't install > something by typing 'sudo yum install foo', I move on to something > else. yes true, I'm currently (when I'm near a fast machine) trying to build GNU Modula-2 as a cross compiler for the avr as a Debian package. Debian's package build mechanism is pretty awesome - but it eats dual core, sata II machines for breakfast.. I've recently looked at the Debian host GCC package - and I'm aiming to release gm2 grafted onto a gcc-4.1.2. Although it will probably be a much simplified package build as opposed to the GCC Debian package - just to reduce time to market etc. I'm hoping Debian's 'alien' package should turn it into a RPM successfully. > (By the way, what's entailed in getting GNU Modula-2 into the main GCC > sources?) truthfully I'm not sure of the exact procedure to get it into the main GCC trunk. However I know that I can place gm2 into the GCC svn tree as a branch and then attempt to keep pack-porting the new patches from the trunk to the gm2 branch. I suppose if enough people found it useful and interesting maybe it would make it into the main truck.. Also I suspect that as patches get submitted to GCC for support for various gm2 features (unbounded arrays, set types) this might provide a little leverage to integrate the two. regards, Gaius