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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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