From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Oct 25 14:19:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 650D537B401 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 14:19:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 42600 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2001 21:19:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 25 Oct 2001 21:19:33 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011025161314.O15052@elvis.mu.org> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 14:19:32 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: your mail Cc: Lyndon Nerenberg , arch@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25-Oct-01 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * David O'Brien [011025 15:53] wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 08:22:03PM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: >> > There was a >> > related argument as to whether gcc (as a name) should die as well, >> > but the argument was made that too many third party packages would >> > break as a result. >> >> NO! There is zero need for this change, and yes many 3rd part things >> will break. >> >> > Meanwhile, it has been useful to install different versions of the >> > GNU C compiler, and in those cases it has also been useful to call >> > them by their real names: gcc and g++. >> >> It also works fine to have them named what I have made them in the ports. >> >> Your email sounds like you have a special (or unusual) need that you are >> trying to force upon all of us. > > To me it makes sense, 'cc' is the system compiler, and anything > else is what it is, yes, we have gcc installed, but what will/would > happen if we were to switch base compilers? We can still keep the gcc names because, well, they are gcc. :) However, calling the system compiler 'cc' makes perfect sense, and it shouldn't hurt to do this. In fact, since Lyndon is just asking for a switch to do it (and not one that will be on by default) there should be no harm in adding such a switch. Remember, we aren't supposed to set policy here. :) The base system should not depend on the 'gcc' name, so having an _option_ to not use the g* names shouldn't be something to get upset about. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message