C Bergström <codest...@osunix.org> writes:

> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:05 AM, David Coakley <dcoak...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Goswin,
>>
>> Thanks for your interest in Open64.  These are both known problems
>> with the build system.
>>
>> I filed two bugs in the Open64 Bugzilla database (bugs.open64.net):
>>
>> 779 : build in source directory does not work
>> 780 : "make install" does not support DESTDIR
>>
>> In addition, I think the installed filesystem layout will need some
>> changes to conform with distro conventions before we can create a
>> valid Debian package.
>
> Path64 and our cmake build system supports debs, rpm, tarball and
> various other options.
>
> Other benefits for package maintainers
> 1) Both of the bugs referenced above are fixed
> 2) Significantly smaller codebase size (1GB vs 100MB - amazing what
> happens when you take the time to remove cruft)
> 3) Builds *much* faster (Whole compiler on a fast machine and -j20 can
> build in ~3 minutes)
> 4) Very portable (Across Linux, Solaris and BSD's)
> 5) Packages already available on OpenSuSE buildservice
> 6) IRC community support - #pathscale - irc.freenode.net
>
> Feel free to check it out
> git clone git://github.com/path64/compiler.git
>
> ./C

So why haven't you send patches for this to open64? Was it neccessary to
fork the project and split the workforce?

MfG
        Goswin

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