Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 14:13:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>, "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Whither gcc 2.7? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.960807141134.11151B-100000@thurston.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199608071727.LAA01936@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Nate Williams wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > > In message <199608071601.JAA05628@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>, "Rodney W. Grimes" write > > I still fail to see the advantage of building things in /src/contrib, > but I've given up arguing since it does not good. *None* of the reasons > brought up against the current Bmake setup were in any way valid, but > since we've got a big hammer all the world looks like a nail. 'Ports is > successful, so everything should be in the ports paradigm that isn't > supplied by CSRG'. *sigh* > > In any case, if we bring in gcc, bringing in the *entire* distribution > would be a big mistake IMHO. The usefulness of other parts is minimal > at best, and the cost is spectacularly large in terms of disk space. > Heck, the entire gcc 2.7.2 distribution is bigger than bin, include, > libexec, sbin, and usr.bin combined. :( I have to agree, on bringing in the whole thing. Some of us may need it, baut the size is enormous (comparatively and absolutely) and the number of us that would need it small. > > > The gcc support for any cpu but i386 qualifies for that. > > If we move over to the new setup, we should be careful not to make the > same mistakes we did before and ship sources that we can generate > (yacc/lex) instead of generating them. This was a problem in the last > version that I should have fixed in my subsequent updates, but I was too > lazy. :( > > The only subdir tree larger than *just* the gcc 2.7 sources is the GNU > tree, which includes gcc 2.6.3. > > > > Nate > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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