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 <sh...@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
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