From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 6 19:18:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9915C37B417; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 19:18:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from peter3.wemm.org ([12.232.27.13]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020207031848.GYOQ10199.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@peter3.wemm.org>; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 03:18:48 +0000 Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g173Iis83588; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 19:18:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6C153BAC; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 19:18:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Joe Kelsey Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc3.x issues In-Reply-To: <15457.56475.172650.789685@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 19:18:43 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020207031843.A6C153BAC@overcee.wemm.org> 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