From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 6 07:53:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA10264 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 07:53:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.111.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA10244 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 07:53:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at) Received: from alcyone (alcyone.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.111.54]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA08769; Wed, 6 May 1998 16:53:29 +0200 (MET-DST) Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 16:53:26 +0200 (MET DST) From: Gerald Pfeifer X-Sender: pfeifer@alcyone.dbai.tuwien.ac.at To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, egcs@cygnus.com cc: "David O'Brien" , "P. van Leeuwen" , law@cygnus.com, Joe Buck Subject: Re: GCC In-Reply-To: <19980506010009.51285@nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 6 May 1998, David O'Brien wrote: > This has been fixed in the development branch since late March, but > for some reason wasn't brought into the "release" branch. The 1.0.x branch is quite stable, but essentially ``dead''. There will, however, soon be a new release branch 1.1.x from the current development branch. > It appears 1.0.3 is a Linux-only release as it only address problems > Linux users had. There (most probably) wouldn't have been a 1.0.3 hadn't RedHat decided to use egcs for its next distribution. egcs really isn't Linux-only or even Linux-centered -- Just look at the number of platforms the various contributors are using! -- but clearly this is a very good chance of getting good publicity and a wide distribution. Gerald -- Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry) Vienna University of Technology pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message