From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 28 11:30:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA23824 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 28 May 1998 11:30:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (root@mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA23797 for ; Thu, 28 May 1998 11:30:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from piquan@wcc.net) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-135.camalott.com [208.229.74.135] (may be forged)) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA12458; Thu, 28 May 1998 13:28:20 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01253; Thu, 28 May 1998 13:29:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 13:29:34 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199805281829.NAA01253@detlev.UUCP> To: rnordier@nordier.com CC: eivind@yes.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199805271551.RAA11565@ceia.nordier.com> (message from Robert Nordier on Wed, 27 May 1998 17:51:11 +0200 (SAT)) Subject: Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199805271551.RAA11565@ceia.nordier.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> I've sent off a mail to the contact person for the TenDRA team; I'll >> wait and see that they say about the feasibility of using TenDRA as an >> OS compiler. > This was the subject of an Open Group research study (involving UnixWare > and Linux) around 1995. (Fairly obviously, it is feasible.) > The critical issue, however, is really whether it is feasible to > compile *FreeBSD* with a non-GCC compiler. Any real problems will > be due to FreeBSD (GCC quirks in the code) not to the compiler. > (There are no fundamental difficulties inherent in compiling > UNIX-like systems). My own concern would be the amount of code in third-party programs that uses gccisms. I guess I don't see why we're looking to change. Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message