On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:53:59PM -0700, NightStrike wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Joe Buck <joe.b...@synopsys.com> wrote: > > one. RMS wanted to have gcc use machines administered by the FSF; we > > pushed back. gcc.gnu.org is sourceware.org. We did agree that we > > A little off-topic, but why *is* gcc on sourceware.org?
Because long ago, Cygnus (now part of Red Hat) contributed hosting for the egcs project, and it happens to be the same machine. The egcs project had a very nice setup, and when egcs became GCC it was kept. But gcc.gnu.org is a different virtual host (for http purposes) than sourceware.org, so you only notice it's the same machine if you use ftp or check the IP address.
