From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Apr 17 2:56:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F005B37B83D for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 02:56:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA10906 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:56:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id LAA00292 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:56:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35B6837B664 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 02:13:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA99444; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:12:10 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:12:10 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shells In-Reply-To: <70005.955917604@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Heh..:-) Please replace grep with the recently developed free grep and > > unbundle gcc, making it a package independent from the base > > distribution. I won't be sad the day I can use tcc to build a kernel, > > besides after rebuilding the kernel (assuming you need to in the first > > place), many people don't need a C compiler. > > This is just a trifle unrealistic unless you've also done the work > required to make tcc compile the world - have you? > Note he is talking about building the kernel, which is really unrealistic right now. "Building a good chunk of userland" is not unrealistic. But - to go to tcc, there would need to be a group of people who oversaw that it didn't rot. Not to mention seeing the same about non-x86 platforms. > - Jordan > Sander To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message