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Date:      Tue, 30 Oct 2001 01:21:43 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
To:        Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com>
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GNU Compiler Symlinks
Message-ID:  <20011030012143.B32738@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <200110292216.f9TMGc0H006478@atg.aciworldwide.com>
References:  <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011029160342.39894E-100000@fledge.watson.org> <200110292216.f9TMGc0H006478@atg.aciworldwide.com>

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On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:16:38PM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>
> What are the chances, realistically, that FreeBSD will ever ship
> with two C compilers in the base system?

Well, Lyndon, this is quickly turning into a flamefest.
Despite the fact that it's no big deal, really.

The system compiler in all Unixen is called `cc', and in FreeBSD one
cann depend to find the system compiler called `cc'.  It so happens
that our system compiler is the GNU C Compiler, and the GNU'ism of
calling it gcc is not *that* bad.  I mean come on, all this arguments
coming and going to and for, for a couple or so of hard links?

It really is not worth it, is it?

-giorgos


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