Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it become standard compiler?)

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2009-Jan-09 19:22:38 -0800, "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip at tutopia.com> wrote:
>- Remove gcc from the base and make the compilation depend on a packaged C.. somewhat like was made with perl.

Not quite the same.  All the build{world,kernel} tools that used perl
were re-written in sh/awk/C so perl is not required to build/install
the base system (this was a prerequisite for removing perl).  IMO, the
FreeBSD base system should come complete with the necessary tools to
build/install itself.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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