yann@2076: File.........: A - Credits.txt
yann@2908: Copyright....: (C) 2010 Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
yann@2076: License......: Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike (CC-by-sa), v2.5
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yann@2076: 
yann@2076: Credits  /
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yann@2076: I would like to thank these fine people for making crosstool-NG possible:
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yann@2076:   Dan KEGEL, the original author of crosstool: http://www.kegel.com/
yann@2076:     Dan was very helpfull and willing to help when I build my first toolchains.
yann@2076:     I owe him one. Thank you Dan!
yann@2076:     Some crosstool-NG scripts have code snippets coming almost as-is from the
yann@2076:     original work by Dan.
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yann@2076: And in order of appearance on the crossgcc ML:
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yann@2076:   Allan CLARK for his investigations on building toolchains on MacOS-X.
yann@2076:     Allan made extensive tests of the first alpha of crosstool-NG on his
yann@2076:     MacOS-X, and unveiled some bash-2.05 weirdness.
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yann@2076:   Enrico WEIGELT
yann@2076:     - some improvements to the build procedure
yann@2076:     - cxa_atexit disabling for C libraries not supporting it (old uClibc)
yann@2076:     - misc suggestions (restartable build, ...)
yann@2076:     - get rid of some bashisms in ./configure
yann@2076:     - contributed OpenRISC or32 support
yann@2076: 
yann@2076:   Robert P. J. DAY:
yann@2076:     - some small improvements to the configurator, misc prompting glitches
yann@2076:     - 'sanitised' patches for binutils-2.17
yann@2076:     - patches for glibc-2.5
yann@2076:     - misc patches, typos and eye candy
yann@2076:     - too many to list any more!
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yann@2076:   Al Stone:
yann@2076:     - initial ia64 support
yann@2076:     - some cosmetics
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yann@2076:   Szilveszter Ordog:
yann@2076:     - a uClibc floating point fix
yann@2076:     - initial support for ARM EABI
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yann@2076:   Mark Jonas:
yann@2076:     - initiated Super-H port
yann@2076: 
yann@2076:   Michael Abbott:
yann@2076:     - make it build with ancient findutils
yann@2076: 
yann@2076:   Willy Tarreau:
yann@2076:     - a patch to glibc to build on 'ancient' shells
yann@2076:     - reported mis-use of $CT_CC_NATIVE
yann@2076: 
yann@2076:   Matthias Kaehlcke:
yann@2076:     - fix building glibc-2.7 (and 2.6.1) with newer kernels
yann@2076: 
yann@2076:   Daniel Dittmann:
yann@2076:     - PowerPC support
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yann@2076:   Ioannis E. Venetis:
yann@2076:     - preliminary Alpha support
yann@2076:     - intense gcc-4.3 brainstorming
yann@2076: 
yann@2076:   Thomas Jourdan:
yann@2076:     - intense gcc-4.3 brainstorming
yann@2076:     - eglibc support
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yann@2829:   Konrad Eisele:
yann@2829:     - initial multlilib support:
yann@2829:       http://sourceware.org/ml/crossgcc/2011-11/msg00040.html
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yann@2076:   Many others have contributed, either in form of patches, suggestions,
yann@2076:   comments, or testing... Thank you to all of you!
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yann@2076: Special dedication to the buildroot people for maintaining a set of patches I
yann@2076: happily and shamelessly vampirise from time to time... :-)
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yann@2076: 20100530: Status of this file
yann@2076: 
yann@2076: It's been about a year now that we've moved the repository to Mercurial.
yann@2076: The repository now has proper authorship for each changeset, and this is
yann@2076: used to build the changelog at each release. This file will probably no
yann@2076: longer be updated, and is here to credit people prior to the Mercurial
yann@2076: migration, or for people discussing ideas or otherwise helping without
yann@2076: code.
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yann@2076: If you think you deserve being cited in this file, do yell at me! ;-)