From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 12:22:25 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 0241B106578C for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:22:25 +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 BA4268FC1C for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:22:24 +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 n0FCMMgn009254; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:22:23 GMT (envelope-from ken@mthelicon.com) Message-ID: <9225949D37F24E01AA5FC01169A256F2@PegaPegII> From: "Pegasus Mc Cleaft" To: "FuLLBLaSTstorm" , References: <20090115084515.GA91157@freebsd.org> <496F0D1D.7080505@andric.com> <6c51dbb10901150344s409cd834p3cd8fae189e42a68@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6c51dbb10901150344s409cd834p3cd8fae189e42a68@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:22:21 -0000 Organization: Feathers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original 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 090114-0, 14/01/2009), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Cc: Subject: Re: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it become standardcompiler?) 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: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:22:27 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "FuLLBLaSTstorm" > On 2009-01-15 09:45, Roman Divacky wrote: >> I really dont see any reason why there must be only ONE compiler that >> can be used to compile FreeBSD. > > I fully agree with it, too. Why not to put something like > OPTION_COMPILER=`gcc|clang|llvm' so every portion of system designed > for particular compiler could use the right one? In principla I like the above idea, but... My own personal feeling is that we should have a single compiler for the entire base (world && kernel). Use that compiler as the system compiler and call it "cc". Any other additional compiler can be installed by the user, if he chooses to do so. If each package / section of the base is compiled with a undefined and developer choosen one, wouldent we have to include all three compilers in the base? (Or am I reading this wrong?) I dont know clang, llvm, pcc, etc. very well, but.. Would this solve our problem where we will still need an assembler, linker, archiver, et al? ~Peg