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docs/A - Credits.txt
author "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Sun Jul 17 22:46:47 2011 +0200 (2011-07-17)
changeset 2892 aa934ec4b4ee
parent 2563 e17f35b05539
child 2908 dcdb309b7967
permissions -rw-r--r--
cc/gcc: add the backend/frontend infra for final gcc

Currently, we issue the bare-metal compiler from the pass_1 & pass_2
core compilers, because the final gcc breaks while doing so.

This implies we have to build some libces during the start_files step,
instead of the standard libc step. This is the case for newlib.

By adding a backend/frontend infra to the final gcc, we can abstract
what backend to call: the standard backend for non-bare-metal gcc,
and the core backend for bare-metal.

This patch is just an no-op, it just adds the final backend and
frontend without changing the way bare-metal is built, to come in a
subsequent patch.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> 
     1 File.........: A - Credits.txt

     2 Copyright....: (C) 2010 Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>

     3 License......: Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike (CC-by-sa), v2.5

     4 

     5 

     6 Credits  /

     7 ________/

     8 

     9 

    10 I would like to thank these fine people for making crosstool-NG possible:

    11 

    12   Dan KEGEL, the original author of crosstool: http://www.kegel.com/

    13     Dan was very helpfull and willing to help when I build my first toolchains.

    14     I owe him one. Thank you Dan!

    15     Some crosstool-NG scripts have code snippets coming almost as-is from the

    16     original work by Dan.

    17 

    18 And in order of appearance on the crossgcc ML:

    19 

    20   Allan CLARK for his investigations on building toolchains on MacOS-X.

    21     Allan made extensive tests of the first alpha of crosstool-NG on his

    22     MacOS-X, and unveiled some bash-2.05 weirdness.

    23 

    24   Enrico WEIGELT

    25     - some improvements to the build procedure

    26     - cxa_atexit disabling for C libraries not supporting it (old uClibc)

    27     - misc suggestions (restartable build, ...)

    28     - get rid of some bashisms in ./configure

    29     - contributed OpenRISC or32 support

    30 

    31   Robert P. J. DAY:

    32     - some small improvements to the configurator, misc prompting glitches

    33     - 'sanitised' patches for binutils-2.17

    34     - patches for glibc-2.5

    35     - misc patches, typos and eye candy

    36     - too many to list any more!

    37 

    38   Al Stone:

    39     - initial ia64 support

    40     - some cosmetics

    41 

    42   Szilveszter Ordog:

    43     - a uClibc floating point fix

    44     - initial support for ARM EABI

    45 

    46   Mark Jonas:

    47     - initiated Super-H port

    48 

    49   Michael Abbott:

    50     - make it build with ancient findutils

    51 

    52   Willy Tarreau:

    53     - a patch to glibc to build on 'ancient' shells

    54     - reported mis-use of $CT_CC_NATIVE

    55 

    56   Matthias Kaehlcke:

    57     - fix building glibc-2.7 (and 2.6.1) with newer kernels

    58 

    59   Daniel Dittmann:

    60     - PowerPC support

    61 

    62   Ioannis E. Venetis:

    63     - preliminary Alpha support

    64     - intense gcc-4.3 brainstorming

    65 

    66   Thomas Jourdan:

    67     - intense gcc-4.3 brainstorming

    68     - eglibc support

    69 

    70   Konrad Eisele:

    71     - initial multlilib support:

    72       http://sourceware.org/ml/crossgcc/2011-11/msg00040.html

    73 

    74   Many others have contributed, either in form of patches, suggestions,

    75   comments, or testing... Thank you to all of you!

    76 

    77 Special dedication to the buildroot people for maintaining a set of patches I

    78 happily and shamelessly vampirise from time to time... :-)

    79 

    80 

    81 20100530: Status of this file

    82 

    83 It's been about a year now that we've moved the repository to Mercurial.

    84 The repository now has proper authorship for each changeset, and this is

    85 used to build the changelog at each release. This file will probably no

    86 longer be updated, and is here to credit people prior to the Mercurial

    87 migration, or for people discussing ideas or otherwise helping without

    88 code.

    89 

    90 If you think you deserve being cited in this file, do yell at me! ;-)
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