From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 2 6:57:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from darkstar.psa.at (darkstar.psa.at [194.152.163.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BC0214D45 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 06:57:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from entropy@compufit.at) Received: from unet4-31.univie.ac.at ([131.130.233.31]) by darkstar.psa.at with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 10Hqwo-0006mU-00; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 16:19:03 +0100 Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 15:25:20 +0100 From: Alexander Sanda X-Mailer: Becky! 1.23 Reply-To: Alexander Sanda Organization: Organized, me ? X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <3642.990302@compufit.at> To: David O'Brien , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gcc References: <19990301221320.A13579@relay.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dienstag, Dienstag, 02. März 1999, you wrote: DOB> Netscape uses a *A.OUT* libg++. We are an *ELF* system now. If you want DOB> to run Netscape (also a piece of a.out code) you would install the DOB> compat22 distribution bits. Then I probably misinterpreted the term "abandon it entirely". DOB> What we are talking about here has nothing to do with Netscape. Maybe. But what if Netscape decides to make the next fbsd release ELF (and still keeps linking with libg++) ? What about Mozilla ? Is it libg++ - free ? I agree that libg++ is (almost) useless today, but dropping it from the source and making it a port shouldn't disturb anyone. -- Alexander To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message