Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:26:05 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: GCC as a selling point for FreeBSD? (Not!) Message-ID: <XFMail.20030122112605.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030119123751.00d4cc00@localhost>
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On 19-Jan-2003 Brett Glass wrote: > Just read the 5.0-RELEASE announcement, and was astonished to see the > following in the list of features: > > - The GCC 3.2.1 compiler provides the latest installment of the > ever-improving GNU Compiler Collection. > > FreeBSD's dependency upon the FSF's code is a bug, not a feature, and > should not be touted as the latter. Oh, please. If you want a BSDl'd compiler so badly, why not put your money where you mouth is and fund some developers. Heck, writing a compiler to support all the different arch's is a pain and a large task, why not work on replacing things like grep (there is a freegrep, it works but is really slow right now IIRC) or even just trying to replace binutils before replacing gcc. Just do something other than whine that other people aren't spending their volunteer time to please your selfish needs. In fact, I find it quite pathetic that you are complaining and unthankful for the fact that people took time to update the toolchain in the tree to make things like the sparc64 and ia64 ports possible. Without gcc 3.2.1, those ports _wouldn't_ exist. Period. Nor would upcoming work on AMD's x86-64 architecture. Grow up and show some appreciation for other people's hard work. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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