From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 7 11:59:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA29313 for current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 11:59:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com ([140.145.230.177]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA29304; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 11:59:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA07381; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 20:59:18 +0200 (MET DST) To: "Justin T. Gibbs" cc: Nate Williams , "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 11:50:14 PDT." <199608071850.LAA28695@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 20:59:17 +0200 Message-ID: <7379.839444357@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199608071850.LAA28695@freefall.freebsd.org>, "Justin T. Gibbs" writ es: >>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, Justin, this is earth, come in Justin, we have a negative on that trajectory-thingie... So what about sup, ftp & ctm ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.