Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:45:34 -0000 From: "Pegasus Mc Cleaft" <ken@mthelicon.com> To: "Pegasus Mc Cleaft" <ken@mthelicon.com>, "Christoph Mallon" <christoph.mallon@gmx.de>, "Doug Barton" <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will itbecome standard compiler?) Message-ID: <B24DEEFE49274359A8AEC964A1947204@PegaPegII> In-Reply-To: <58DAD35B6CCC476E89B9D02F51041E87@PegaPegII> References: <20090113044111.134EC1CC0B@ptavv.es.net> <20090113222023.GA51810@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <496D1ED6.4090202@FreeBSD.org> <200901132356.40820.ken@mthelicon.com><496DCC38.4010809@FreeBSD.org><496DD37E.5010900@gmx.de> <58DAD35B6CCC476E89B9D02F51041E87@PegaPegII>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Pegasus Mc Cleaft" <ken@mthelicon.com> > If gcc 4.2 && buildtools 2.15 is the end of the road for what BSD is > able to include under GPL V2. Can we draw a line under it and continue to > include it as buildable with the world if a configure option like "option > BUILDGCC42" is in the kernel config file? This way an admin who wanted to > build it and use it as a primer could, before downloading the port and > building the later versions (if he wanted to, or there organization > allowed him to). Some of the older *nix's I have worked on (OSF/1, HPUX, > SCO, etc) have a very basic (but normally optimized compiler) for that > platform that is enough to compile a version of gcc that will be used to > compile other tools and services. My appologies for answering my own post, but I must make a new habbit of reading what I wrote before hitting the send key! I just realized that it would be impossible to to the above without already having a compiler! <chuckles> Never mind! ~peg
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