Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:22:56 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: removing f2c from base distribution Message-ID: <199901270622.WAA09332@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990126220644.A7037@relay.nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at "Jan 26, 1999 10: 6:44 pm"
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David O'Brien wrote: > > The question is whether Peter wants to include g77, and whether > > people would see this as bloat. I know g77 outperforms f2c+gcc > > on my real-world benchmarks by a significant margin. > > A good question, is how easy it is to download egcs-g77-1.1.1.tar.gz and > build it into something workable assuming the EGCS C and C++ compilers > are part of the system. > I haven't read the egcs mailinglist in a few weeks, but my impression is that if you download egcs-g77-1.1.1.tar.gz after building the egcs C and C++ compilers, you then have to recompile at a minimum the C compiler. Things may have changed, but g77 is simply a frontend to the gcc backend. It is not a standalone compiler. -- Steve finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~clesceri/kargl.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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