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Date:      Fri, 5 Mar 1999 14:51:43 -0500
From:      Brian Cully <shmit@kublai.com>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gcc
Message-ID:  <19990305145143.D329@kublai.com>
In-Reply-To: <199903051927.LAA50965@apollo.backplane.com>; from Matthew Dillon on Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 11:27:41AM -0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9902281706480.339-100000@picnic.mat.net> <31170.920242197@zippy.cdrom.com> <19990305183359.A37263@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <199903051821.KAA49076@apollo.backplane.com> <19990305195457.B39438@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <199903051927.LAA50965@apollo.backplane.com>

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On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 11:27:41AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :And what about including it as an alternative system compiler ?
> :
> :base:	cc	gcc	g++	c++
> :egcs:	ecc	egcc	eg++	ec++
> :
> :Would that be possible ? Like awk and nawk in the past ?! ;-)
> :
> :That would bering an option to people, who want to have it in
> :the base OS ...
> 
>     Well, of course... but that could be a port as easily as it could be
>     put in the base system.

We could do what NetBSD did, which was have both and put an option
in /etc/make.conf to the effect of USE_EGCS, which would default
to off for now, and default to on when things shake out.

Of course, NetBSD knew they were going to egcs, so it wasn't that
big a deal for them.

-- 
Brian Cully						<shmit@rcn.com>
``I'm not surprised,'' said I. ``You created God in your own image,
and when you found out he was no good you abolished him. It's quite a
common form of psychological suicide.''
				-- Robertson Davies, Fifth Buisiness    


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