From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 28 10:36:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorm-36314.rh.uh.edu (Dorm-36314.RH.UH.EDU [129.7.141.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE6FA1527D for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 10:36:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wotan@dorm-36314.rh.uh.edu) Received: from localhost (wotan@localhost) by dorm-36314.rh.uh.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA34619 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 12:36:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from wotan@dorm-36314.rh.uh.edu) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 12:36:40 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Fosburgh Reply-To: jef53313@bayou.uh.edu To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Why gcc is the system's compiler. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have recently been wodering why FreeBSD uses gcc as the system compiler as opposed to whatever compiler came out of CSRG. Did that compiler have to be removed as a result of the lawsuit, or was it simply too old to be worth updating. Not to knock gcc, but I, as I believe many people think, would rather the base distribution be all BSD tools, or at least have a Berkeley style license. Jonathan Fosburgh Geotechnician Snyder Oil Corporation Houston, TX Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498 Manager, FreeBSD Webring: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498/computer/freebsdring.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message