Comments on: pcc, again

By: Chris Rawnsley

Chris Rawnsley — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:50:43 +0000

Oh I meant to say that they are working towards it being GCC compatible.

By: Chris Rawnsley

Chris Rawnsley — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:49:42 +0000

Have you heard of Clang? It’s a new front-end for C/C++/Obj-C that’s being worked on for LLVM which will be license compatible with DFBSD.

By: Gergo Szakal

Gergo Szakal — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:58:39 +0000

BTW buildworld would be the good thing indeed because a) dropping GCC would make the source tree significantly smaller (and less GPL FWIW), b) pkgsrc would build GCC for us anyway (since many packages’ codes are full of GCCisms) but the maintenance burden would be a bit less on the handful of DF developers.

By: Gergo Szakal

Gergo Szakal — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:53:09 +0000

Well, the current Lua tarball (something that is really portable) compiles with it, and seems to eat lua files as it should. However, I am no Makefile guru so somebody with actual knowledge should testi it instead.

By: Justin Sherrill

Justin Sherrill — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:42:39 +0000

buildworld? I’d be surprised if it succeeds, but what the heck.

By: Gergo Szakal

Gergo Szakal — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:33:16 +0000

Well, it compiles (checked from CVS). I’ll try compiling something with it if I can.