From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 16 21:40:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA01130 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 21:40:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from proxyb2.san.rr.com (proxyb2-atm.san.rr.com [204.210.0.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA01119 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 21:40:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Received: from san.rr.com (dt050ndd.san.rr.com [204.210.31.221]) by proxyb2.san.rr.com (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA23556 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 21:39:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <34E922A8.77A3F96A@san.rr.com> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 21:39:52 -0800 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE-0216 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc 2.8.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > gcc requries massive hacking to work. Check in on the -hackers mail > archives for current progess; we're still working on it. This is a question I've been meaning to ask. I always took not being able to upgrade gcc in stride because it's not been a priority for me. However I was looking over some security stuff and one of the first recommendations for securing a high priority machine is to remove the compiler. I know that gcc is tightly integrated into FreeBSD, but I'm wondering now if that's such a good idea. Which leads me to my question. Are there any plans to dis-integrate gcc from the base? It seems like the gcc folks are being more agressive about more frequent upgrades, so it would be nice to be able to play around with them. More importantly it would be nice to be able to trim gcc out with one fell swoop when needed. Obviously this would be a -current thing, but I'm wondering if its on the drawing board. Thanks, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message