From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 14 13:45:39 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A96F210656BD; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:45:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ken@mthelicon.com) Received: from hercules.mthelicon.com (hercules.mthelicon.com [IPv6:2001:49f0:2023::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5294B8FC18; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:45:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ken@mthelicon.com) Received: from PegaPegII (93-152-14-233.daisydsl.managedbroadband.co.uk [93.152.14.233]) (authenticated bits=0) by hercules.mthelicon.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n0EDjaLt002257; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:45:37 GMT (envelope-from ken@mthelicon.com) Message-ID: From: "Pegasus Mc Cleaft" To: "Pegasus Mc Cleaft" , "Christoph Mallon" , "Doug Barton" 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> In-Reply-To: <58DAD35B6CCC476E89B9D02F51041E87@PegaPegII> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:45:34 -0000 Organization: Feathers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="KOI8-U"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6001.18049 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 090113-1, 13/01/2009), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will itbecome standard compiler?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Pegasus Mc Cleaft List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:45:40 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pegasus Mc Cleaft" > 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! Never mind! ~peg