re: cmake stuck on mips

matthew green <[email protected]> Wed, 16 Jul 2025 14:38:39 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mips.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> 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?

it's just a lot of effort to upstream all our changes.  every
so often someone does a bunch (thanks maya most recently!).

anyone want to help?  i can provide advice.  we have some
in-tree that aren't up-streamable, but mostly those are in
just a couple of files (ones with NETBSD_NATIVE define.)


.mrg.