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- From: jon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Jon Tombs)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Distribution sugestion for gcc.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.200041.6051@diomedes.robots.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 20:00:41 GMT
- References: <1992Sep05.170344.14838@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
- Organization: Robotics Research Group, Engineering Science Dept, Oxford, UK.
- Lines: 30
- Originator: jon@diomedes.robots
-
- In article <1992Sep05.170344.14838@donau.et.tudelft.nl> wolff@hal.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff) writes:
- >I have been thinking about the method gcc is being distributed.
- >(partly because I had problems myself, and I seem to be not the only
- >one)
- >
- >Anyway, how about creating a tar file with EVERYTHING in it. This could
- >be done in two ways:
- >1) all the files that are in there now + an install script.
- >2) ALL that gcc needs. Even the links etc that the install script makes.
- >
- >[...]
- >Ok. Suggestions? pro's con's?
-
- I suggest you get the compiler via the mcc-interim release.
-
- I would also hope the next gcc is not tied to a particular kernel, why did
- linus move his types.h to be <linux/types.h> when <sys/types.h> now just
- includes it? This means if a future kernel patch changes anything, the whole
- of libc might then be incompatable. I'm not saying that the kernel and libc
- should have separate include files, but until changes slow down then they
- should stay stand alone releases.
-
- I lost my /usr/src partition with a disk corruption, and couldn't compile
- anything (even a helloworld.c program) until I replaced the kernel code.
- Now I don't have time to work out if everything is correct as I haven't run
- install.2.x on the replaced kernel code.
-
- --
- Jon <jon@robots.ox.ac.uk>
- I'm not playing with my computer, I'm working!
-