----- Original Message ----- From: "Pegasus Mc Cleaft" <ken_at_mthelicon.com> > If gcc 4.2 && buildtools 2.15 is the end of the road for what BSD is > able to include under GPL V2. Can we draw a line under it and continue to > include it as buildable with the world if a configure option like "option > BUILDGCC42" is in the kernel config file? This way an admin who wanted to > build it and use it as a primer could, before downloading the port and > building the later versions (if he wanted to, or there organization > allowed him to). Some of the older *nix's I have worked on (OSF/1, HPUX, > SCO, etc) have a very basic (but normally optimized compiler) for that > platform that is enough to compile a version of gcc that will be used to > compile other tools and services. My appologies for answering my own post, but I must make a new habbit of reading what I wrote before hitting the send key! I just realized that it would be impossible to to the above without already having a compiler! <chuckles> Never mind! ~pegReceived on Wed Jan 14 2009 - 12:45:39 UTC
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