From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 7 11:50:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA28706 for current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 11:50:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA28695; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 11:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199608071850.LAA28695@freefall.freebsd.org> To: Nate Williams cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , "Rodney W. Grimes" , peter@spinner.dialix.com (Peter Wemm), current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Whither gcc 2.7? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Aug 1996 11:27:53 MDT." <199608071727.LAA01936@rocky.mt.sri.com> Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 11:50:14 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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. :( Why not import the whole thing but only distribute the i386 code by default? We can easily setup additional CVSup targets for the non i386 portions of the compiler for people interested in cross compiling or working on a new port. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================