From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 28 13:16:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6116D152C2 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 13:15:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id NAA01839; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 13:15:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 13:15:03 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Peter Wemm Cc: Warner Losh , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc Message-ID: <19990228131503.A1563@relay.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <199902281648.JAA80190@harmony.village.org> <199902281707.BAA63212@spinner.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <199902281707.BAA63212@spinner.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 01:07:46AM +0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The main holdups have been getting the native egcs build to do something > more sensible with regards to -aout/-elf, and, if things work out, a bit Work might go a bit faster if the work that has been done already would be posted somewhere. Having such an important issue being responsible on a single over-worked person is not productive. ***Like Jordan said, we get NO new install and package utils until EGCS is in the tree.*** Possibly people don't realize how much the public is interested in improved install and package tools. At a recent FreeBSD users's group meeting in San Francisco, Jordan spoke of the new progress on the new tools. I'd guess between his speal and the tons of interest and questions that came up, that the topic was discussed well over an hour. At a minium the stuff that has already been done should be added to the port. ALSO, don't forget that just getting a FreeBSD'ized EGCS is just the first step. We will have to test ``build world'' many times and I'm sure we will have to change base code to compile as we like with EGCS. The more people that are allowed to get involved with this the faster things will go. In addition, at schools it is getting harder and harder to convince people to try FreeBSD when we have a broken C++ compiler in the base system. In case some aren't aware, C++ is now part of the standard CS curriculum these days. > I suspect libg++ is approaching "delete" material. libstdc++ comes > with egcs, and a hacked up libg++ is floating around that we can > probably use, but I wonder if it's time to loose it and keep just > libstdc++. It is time to dump libg++. Once EGCS is in the tree, I'll make a port of the libg++ meant for post g++ 2.8 compilers. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message