From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 26 22:21:41 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA03845 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:21:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA03840 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:21:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA09332; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:22:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk) From: Steve Kargl Message-Id: <199901270622.WAA09332@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: removing f2c from base distribution In-Reply-To: <19990126220644.A7037@relay.nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at "Jan 26, 1999 10: 6:44 pm" To: obrien@NUXI.com Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:22:56 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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