Fwd: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it becomestandard compiler?)

From: James Butler <sweetnavelorange_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 12:55:20 +1300
2009/2/1 Mark Linimon <linimon_at_lonesome.com>:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:08:54PM -0800, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
>> The effort didn't go far enough. Why haven't we removed GNU readline ?
>
> Probably either because someone hasn't written a BSD-licensed one, or
> someone hasn't done the work to test-compile src and ports on all the
> appropriate architectures.

This might be off topic, but NetBSD has (limited) readline
compatibility in their libedit (which FreeBSD has in ports I think) -
this also gives them tab-completion in /bin/sh :-)

-James Butler
Received on Sat Jan 31 2009 - 23:27:13 UTC

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