From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 6 17:19:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from zircon.seattle.wa.us (sense-sea-CovadSub-0-80.oz.net [216.39.147.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9DECD37B41D for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:19:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 94709 invoked by uid 1001); 7 Feb 2002 01:23:34 -0000 From: Joe Kelsey MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15457.55061.55399.596297@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:23:32 -0800 To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gcc3.x issues In-Reply-To: <20020206170904.C181@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20020206160611.B181@dragon.nuxi.com> <200202070053.g170rjQ19592@aldan.algebra.com> <20020206170904.C181@dragon.nuxi.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.01 under Emacs 21.1.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It is plain that many people will want to be able to install a version of gcc that is officially supported and that also includes *all* of the standard platforms that come as part of the gcc release. What is so wrong with being able to specify a compilation flag that says "install all of the extra bits that come with gcc". This could be off by default, but be settable on a site-by-site basis for those who feel that installing gcc et al. just once is plenty instead of having to track god knows how many different ports supporting wildly varying versions of gcc. I agree that installing the entire gcc chain is overkill for many small sites, but if you have the horsepower, you can choose appropriate points in the release cycle where you want to install the entire compiler suite (say right after a major release) and set the appropriate flag *at that time* to get the bits you want. Or, it could be a predefined package available for installation that puts all of the compilers in the same place as the standard gcc/g++, i.e., /usr instead of /usr/local. /Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message