From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 5 11:52: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp4.erols.com (smtp4.erols.com [207.172.3.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E5F015210 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 11:52:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shmit@natasya.mrf.va.noc.rcn.net) Received: from natasya.mrf.va.noc.rcn.net (natasya.mrf.va.noc.rcn.net [207.172.25.236]) by smtp4.erols.com (8.8.8/smtp-v1) with ESMTP id OAA10494; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 14:51:43 -0500 (EST) Received: (from shmit@localhost) by natasya.mrf.va.noc.rcn.net (8.9.2/8.9.1) id OAA01129; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 14:51:43 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <19990305145143.D329@kublai.com> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 14:51:43 -0500 From: Brian Cully To: Matthew Dillon , Andreas Klemm Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Chuck Robey , "David O'Brien" , The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc Reply-To: shmit@kublai.com References: <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199903051927.LAA50965@apollo.backplane.com>; from Matthew Dillon on Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 11:27:41AM -0800 X-Sender: If your mailer pays attention to this, it's broken. X-PGP-Info: finger shmit@kublai.com for my public key. Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ``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