IRIX support removal from the GNU toolchain

IRIX support removal from the GNU toolchain

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

Everyone --

 Just to raise your attention, IRIX support removal is being discussed 
across GNU toolchain mailing lists right now with the likely outcome of a 
go-ahead very soon, especially as support for the OS itself has been 
recently withdrawn by SGI and also toolchain maintainers have no access to 
IRIX machines anymore.  So if there's anyone among you who in addition to 
being keen on Linux for the MIPS platform is also an IRIX enthusiast and 
would like to keep the platform alive in the GNU toolchain, now's about 
time to speak up and step in as the maintainer.

  Maciej

Re: IRIX support removal from the GNU toolchain

[Joshua Kinard]

On 09/10/2014 19:16, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Everyone --
> 
>  Just to raise your attention, IRIX support removal is being discussed 
> across GNU toolchain mailing lists right now with the likely outcome of a 
> go-ahead very soon, especially as support for the OS itself has been 
> recently withdrawn by SGI and also toolchain maintainers have no access to 
> IRIX machines anymore.  So if there's anyone among you who in addition to 
> being keen on Linux for the MIPS platform is also an IRIX enthusiast and 
> would like to keep the platform alive in the GNU toolchain, now's about 
> time to speak up and step in as the maintainer.
> 
>   Maciej

My understanding is that IRIX was already removed from gcc two years ago,
deprecated in 4.7 and removed in 4.8:

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2012-03/msg00067.html

Not sure about binutils -- links to the mailing lists in question?

-- 
Joshua Kinard
Gentoo/MIPS
kumba@gentoo.org
4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28

"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us.  And our
lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between."

--Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic

Re: IRIX support removal from the GNU toolchain

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, Joshua Kinard wrote:

> My understanding is that IRIX was already removed from gcc two years ago,
> deprecated in 4.7 and removed in 4.8:
> 
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2012-03/msg00067.html
> 
> Not sure about binutils -- links to the mailing lists in question?

http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2014-09/msg00040.html
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2014-09/msg00041.html
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2014-09/msg00065.html

-- and messages downthread.

  Maciej