Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:43:35 +0200 (CEST) From: chgu@carebears.mine.nu To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: [Fwd: Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!"] Message-ID: <51070.134.47.109.185.1057592615.squirrel@carebears.mine.nu>
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---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!" From: chgu@carebears.mine.nu Date: Mon, July 7, 2003 5:32 pm To: "Jerry Hicks" <gehicks@alltel.net> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 07:51 AM, Paul Robinson wrote: > >> The big one is gcc. Remove that, and we're really rolling. The >> alternatives >> aren't very good though - TenDRA? I remember the troll a few weeks ago suggesting this, and maybe it's a plan. The impact would be massive though. > > Plan 9's compilers are the closest thing I've seen toward a compiler that could be used to bootstrap a BSD. I believe one would pay a hefty price in terms of optimization however. > > I actually got the assembler, compiler and linker working on Freebsd a while back. The Plan 9 compiler suite generates COFF output though and I needed to get a crt0 set up for it (which I never did). FreeBSD's IBCS image activator was able to load the images without a hitch. > >> All those makefiles with command line options to be passed to gcc... > > Bah, child's play :-) > Why dont strip FreeBSD down as much as possible and try to make ports of the software. Like sendmail. Why is sendmail in /usr/src ? i guess it would be better to have in in ports. the same with cvs. I guess there is much software in /usr/src that dont "need" to be there. My opinion is to keep FreeBSD`s /usr/src small. (god damn, my mailclient dont really under stand the "replay"-word. sorry, Jerry Hicks.)
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