On Sunday, August 28, 2016, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 1:57 PM, K. Macy <km...@freebsd.org > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','km...@freebsd.org');>> wrote: > >> Can you point to other platforms where the default system compiler has >> disabled functionality? >> > > You have to install LLVM from elsewhere to get full functionality on OS X: > Apple only ships the parts that Xcode cares about. OTOH, this pretty much > only impacts things that want to use LLVM IR. (On the gripping hand, for > some people that is about as relevant as OpenMP.) > > There were some late SunOS 4 releases where you had (p)cc in the base, > with various tools that people expect missing, and had to install SunSoft C > to get a decent compiler and all the tools. (They removed almost all of it > from Solaris 2, of course.) > > Interesting. The primary OSX user doesn't use a compiler. The SunOS example strikes me as being the closest. And it's because they wanted to sell you extra software. Here it's the notion that there is a compiler for "base" and then ports are "everything else". Ultimately, from the user's perspective "base" will just be a particularly well integrated set of packages - including, rather idiosyncratically, a compiler that only has the features required by that package set. -M > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine > associates > allber...@gmail.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','allber...@gmail.com');> > ballb...@sinenomine.net > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ballb...@sinenomine.net');> > unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad > http://sinenomine.net > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
