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Date:      Wed, 07 Aug 1996 11:50:14 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>, "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>, peter@spinner.dialix.com (Peter Wemm), current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Whither gcc 2.7? 
Message-ID:  <199608071850.LAA28695@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Aug 1996 11:27:53 MDT." <199608071727.LAA01936@rocky.mt.sri.com> 

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>In any case, if we bring in gcc, bringing in the *entire* distribution
>would be a big mistake IMHO.  The usefulness of other parts is minimal
>at best, and the cost is spectacularly large in terms of disk space.
>Heck, the entire gcc 2.7.2 distribution is bigger than bin, include,
>libexec, sbin, and usr.bin combined. :(

Why not import the whole thing but only distribute the i386 code by
default?  We can easily setup additional CVSup targets for the non
i386 portions of the compiler for people interested in cross compiling
or working on a new port.

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Justin T. Gibbs
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