Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 11:21:44 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Whither gcc 2.7? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.94.960807111555.5199U-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com> In-Reply-To: <199608071727.LAA01936@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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[trimmed up the cc: list a bit] On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Nate Williams wrote: >[...] > >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 concur with Nate here. I surmise that only a handful of people want to fiddle with the other platform stuff. If it was *me* doing that I suspect I would be willing to go download my own bloat. (Though I'm not using this other stuff, so keep my reply in context.) I guess another thing I wonder about...has anyone thought about the future plans of tracking gcc? We've been running 2.6.3 for a loong time, are we going to move to 2.7.# and stay with it or is FreeBSD going to start tracking gcc more closely? Brian
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