Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 14:57:56 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Whither gcc 2.7? Message-ID: <199608071257.OAA02175@grumble.grondar.za>
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Peter Wemm wrote: > A couple of things have been happening here that have drastically impacted > on the time I've been spending on FreeBSD lately... My family still has > the Flu for starters (it's going onto the 8th week or so now :-( ), and > something terrible has happened at work... (like, I've actually been > having quite good *fun* on my paying job. I've been spending a lot of > extra time on that.) Ah yes, the bane of FreeBSD development - a fun job! > So, I'm pretty tempted to just give up and do 2.7.2 and update it to > 2.7.3/2.7.2.1/whatever when it's finally ready. Please do that! > This does have merits, as I > could actually use John Polstra's elfkit patches to allow an elf version > to be built as well. > > It makes no real difference to me time-wise as to which form is imported, > as I have both versions (bmake style and "native" style) working and in > sync here already, under P3's multiple-view control. > > Also, out of interest, it would not be difficult to have a real gcc-style > build using a driver makefile under src/gnu/usr.bin/cc, including obj dir > support, running configure --srcdir=... and so on. > > Perhaps it should be done that way anyway, as it would be trivial to have > both compilers in the system for a limited time, and allow people to > easily opt to use the old one if there's a major problem for them. This make far too much sense _not_ to be used. The src/contrib system is nice. Please use that. > The more I think about it, the more I'm changing my mind and coming to the > opinion that we can do a lot more with it if the parts that we need go > into src/contrib with the bmake build points in the correct part of the > tree as usual. Win, Win, Win. > I have other things on the agenda: > - libncurses > - cvs > - libz (cvs now uses it) Win, Win, Win. M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grondar.za for PGP key
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