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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!porpoise!humu!pegasus!richard
  3. From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
  4. Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep7.153453.7370@pegasus.com>
  6. Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
  7. References: <1992Sep4.234429.18294@newsgate.sps.mot.com> <QG0JYC1@taronga.com> <1992Sep06.065525.8475@kithrup.COM>
  8. Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 15:34:53 GMT
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  11. >>You're assuming that "posix compliant" means anything actually useful.
  12. >>From what I've seen it's seriously incomplete for any real applications,
  13. >>and so amounts to no more than a checkmark on a requirements sheet.
  14. >
  15. >I don't know about that.  gcc, gas, GNU make, the GNU binutils (and,
  16. >perforce, the GNU BFD library) can all be built in a POSIX-only environment.
  17. >(They can do this, partially, because they supply lots of what the need, but
  18. >that's okay.)
  19.  
  20.  
  21. If you're saying that POSIX specifies *everything* necessary to build
  22. those GNU products, I think you are mistaken.
  23.  
  24. POSIX is too limited to be worthwhile.
  25.  
  26.  
  27. -- 
  28. Richard Foulk        richard@pegasus.com
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