[geeks] [rescue] Ultra 5 OS

[Phil Stracchino]

On 04/29/10 11:02, Andrew Jones wrote:
> Yes, Cygnus sold support for GNU, but GNU software *was* Cygnus's software.
> They aggressively hacked on GCC, and they wrote much of the code in today's
> binutils.  Working on GNU software was their raison d'etre.

Plus newlib.  Cygnus was the official maintainer of gcc, and of glibc as
well iirc.  Then after Red Hat acquired Cygnus, largely apparently to
gain control of gcc, the GNU steering committee ended up taking away the
gcc maintainership and giving it to Wind River.  If I were to be snarky,
which of course I would never do, I might suggest that this could be a
factor in why it's so damn difficult to get gcc4 to build on Solaris 10.


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