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- Date: Sun, 16 Jan 94 11:53:33 MST
- From: shenson@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Stephen Henson)
- Message-Id: <9401161853.AA29916@nyx10.cs.du.edu>
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- To: shenson@nyx10.cs.du.edu, walra%moacs11@nl.net
- Subject: Re: Filesystem compatability ... [MINTOS]
-
- Well not everyone wants to distribute sources and runtime support is rather
- bettter if sources aren't available. The alternative is to supply two binaries
- (or more). At the same time not everyone wants to pull large quantities of
- sources just to change a comple switch (this happended with gcc until relatively
- recently, where it didn't tolerate case senstive filesystems properly because
- it wasn't compiled with Mintlib).
- I don't see why a fairly universal binary configurer can't be written,
- which would handle standrad things like default unixmode settings and have a
- small extra text file which would list symbol names/types and relevant questions.
- E.g. gcc could ask where the include/lib/binaries were.
- Steve.
-