Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:36:42 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 boot2.c Message-ID: <20021217233642.GU15322@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <1040160158.20854.29.camel@pc016247.reshall.uidaho.edu> References: <20021217.103409.105683273.imp@bsdimp.com> <XFMail.20021217124038.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20021217202351.GO15322@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <1040160158.20854.29.camel@pc016247.reshall.uidaho.edu>
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On 2002-Dec-17 13:22:38 -0800, John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> wrote: >develop. Along those lines, the Open Watcom project now has it's >development sources online, and the Open Watcom compiler, descended from >the Watcom commercial compiler, is now online. See > >http://www.openwatcom.org/license_info/open_watcom_lic.html This is substantially larger than bcc and AFAIK no-one's done a FreeBSD port for it yet. There's also an issue of integration and support - boot2 is part of buildworld so the toolchain to build it must be part of FreeBSD. I suspect importing bcc would create far fewer problems than importing Open Watcom (especially since the author of bcc is already a FreeBSD developer). My feeling is that neither of these approaches are ideal - but neither is having to write and build a cross-gcc just to compile boot2. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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