From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 10 09:45:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA07724 for current-outgoing; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 09:45:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA07718 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 09:45:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) id SAA19594; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 18:30:39 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by klemm.gtn.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA00499; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 16:41:25 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 16:41:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm To: Michael Hancock cc: "Brian N. Handy" , Nate Williams , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Whither gcc 2.7? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-try-apsfilter: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz X-Fax: +49 2137 2018 X-Phone: +49 2137 2020 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Michael Hancock wrote: > On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Brian N. Handy wrote: > > > 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? > > Since we're using gcc to compile the kernel we need to identify stable > releases of gcc and stick with it for a while. > > Closely tracking and incorporating all gcc releases (including unstable > releases) is not a high priority. Would it be a good compromise with respect to kernel stability, to call the old stable cc 'cc' and the new 2.7.2.x one 'gcc' ?! Everybody could choose between cc and gcc via /etc/make.conf. So we should perhaps add a contrib section with a bmaked contrib/gcc, so that the stable cc could stay where he is ?! andreas@klemm.gtn.com /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ Support Unix -- andreas.klemm@wup.de pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<