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Could someone let me know if there are Cygnus patches for m68k-elf. I'm currently trying to get my company to sign an assignment so my patches could go into the offical egcs/gcc, but they are stalling/slow - If there are already patches I may just give up pestering our lawyers.... Cheers Mark On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, John Breen wrote: > >From karuottu@freenet.hut.fi Mon Oct 19 04:20:24 1998 > > When looking at the available Cygnus config files for 'm68k-elf': > >'config/m68k/m68kelf.h', 'config/m68k/m68020-elf.h', 'config/elfos.h' > etc., > >they all said that they are 'freely distributable' using GPL... > > > > So, why this 'reinventing the wheel' method was needed? Why not just > use the > >'CYGNUS LOCAL' configuration settings as the base? > > Sorry, but I have no idea what you're referring to when you say "CYGNUS > LOCAL". I don't recall anything about it in the FAQ (oddly enough I did > just see a message on the egcs list talking about "CYGNUS LOCAL" wrt > java, but I still didn't understand what it meant). > > All I know is, when I asked last February about elf for m68k, Mark > Phillips was the only one who offered patches. When I asked on the egcs > list this summer (being surprised that there still was no m68k-elf > support), I was told by Jeffrey Law (who I believe works for Cygnus) > that no one had submitted patches, that I could send in Mark Phillips's > patches, but they'd probably have to get him to assign the patches to > the FSF before they could include them. If Cygnus has m68k-elf patches, > I have no idea why those can't be put in egcs. > -- > John A. Breen > jab3@hotmail.com > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > ________________________________________________ > To get help for the crossgcc list, send mail to > crossgcc-request@cygnus.com with the text 'help' > (without the quotes) in the body of the message. > -- Mark S. Phillips ESN 742 2461 msp@nortel.co.uk Tel. +44 1279 402461 ________________________________________________ To get help for the crossgcc list, send mail to crossgcc-request@cygnus.com with the text 'help' (without the quotes) in the body of the message.