Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:07:27 -0800 (PST) From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@tutopia.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it become standard compiler?) Message-ID: <342292.89033.qm@web32703.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <61484.71762.qm@web32708.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20090111044448.GC5661@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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> On 2009-Jan-09 19:22:38 -0800, "Pedro F. Giffuni" wrote:
> >- Remove gcc from the base and make the compilation depend on a packaged C..
> somewhat like was made with perl.
>
> Not quite the same. All the build{world,kernel} tools that used perl
> were re-written in sh/awk/C so perl is not required to build/install
> the base system (this was a prerequisite for removing perl). IMO, the
> FreeBSD base system should come complete with the necessary tools to
> build/install itself.
>
OK, I quite agree it's not the same as perl: C is not something we cannot depend on.
There was, however, the idea that the installation could be more packaged oriented. The C compiler gets in the way of installing a lighter client. Many users don't need a C compiler as they can use pre-packaged stuff and there's also the issue that we don't really do all that much in-tree development of the development tools.
Pedro.
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