From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Oct 25 19: 1:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 051EE37B401; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 19:01:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f9Q21G104827; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 19:01:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 19:01:16 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: John Baldwin Cc: Lyndon Nerenberg , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20011025190116.C4609@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: arch@FreeBSD.org Mail-Followup-To: arch@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 02:19:32PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 02:19:32PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > 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. We all *ready* call the system compiler `cc'. So I don't understand what you are saying. > 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. Other than a messier Makefile for what I see as a very rare corner case. > 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. We aren't setting policy. Like it or not, our system compiler is `gcc'. Also like it or not `gcc' is the most prolific compiler in all of history. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message