From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 11 19:12:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from newman2.bestweb.net (newman2.bestweb.net [209.94.102.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 714D837B4AF; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 18:17:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from okeeffe.bestweb.net (okeefe.bestweb.net [209.94.100.110]) by newman2.bestweb.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9ED4232D3; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:17:01 -0500 (EST) Received: by okeeffe.bestweb.net (Postfix, from userid 0) id 15B0B9F2D3; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:12:04 -0500 (EST) To: Joe Kelsey Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc3.x issues Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 19:18:43 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020212021204.15B0B9F2D3@okeeffe.bestweb.net> 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 Joe Kelsey wrote: > David O'Brien writes: > > 3. Are you going to maintain them? If we did do this work and allowed > > people to optinally install gjc and Ada, I bet only 5% would do so > > (other than the initial turning it on just to see what the compilers > > looked like). > > What is so hard about allowing someone to specify the list of frontends > to provide at system build time? I thought that gcc was supposed to be > a modular compiler system, and that all we are asking for is the ability > to add to the default front ends, along with the default support > libraries, in the default places. 1: Are you going to provide the Makefile glue to do this? If not, then shut the hell up. 2: We need to get a *basic* compiler up and running first. Give David a break, ok? There are far bigger problems to deal with first before futzing around on obscure languages that we have no critical need for in the base system. We ***NEED*** the ability to compile basic C code for the sparc64, ia64 and x86-64 platforms. Until that is dealt with, the rest is a luxury. 3: Once we have the basics running, *then* maybe we can talk about compile knobs. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message