Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 17 Feb 1998 23:42:00 +0100
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: egcs and -stable
Message-ID:  <19980217234200.64455@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980217173007.8019A-100000@echonyc.com>; from Snob Art Genre on Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 05:32:03PM -0500
References:  <199802172226.PAA04230@usr09.primenet.com> <Pine.GSO.3.96.980217173007.8019A-100000@echonyc.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 05:32:03PM -0500, Snob Art Genre wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > The FSF 2.8.0 is better than the Cygnus 2.8.0.
> 
> So I should use gcc28 in ports/lang instead of egcs?  OK . . . how well
> will that work as my system compiler?  Does it work for making the world?
> How about the kernel?  Etc.

EGCS is bazar.  FSF gcc is still cathedral.  I'm fairly certain egcs
hold a large part of the future for gcc (though much of the
development there might be merged back to FSF gcc).

Eivind, who notice that FSF once more has had a spin-off product due
to its long release-cycles.

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19980217234200.64455>