From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17766 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2007 10:33:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 17747 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Dec 2007 10:33:12 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (HELO nf-out-0910.google.com) (64.233.182.191) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:32:22 +0000 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id h3so4515943nfh for ; Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:32:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.86.54.3 with SMTP id c3mr314320fga.1196850739232; Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:32:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.86.95.4 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Dec 2007 02:32:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8bc817ee0712050232i30e0037fn47f8bac863a8413d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:33:00 -0000 From: "Tom Browder" To: "Lionel B" Subject: Re: Serious Bugs In Gcc Builds Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4755A3B9.9060601@ix.netcom.com> <530296C8-E107-4676-A419-AC33415AB576@corp.earthlink.net> <4755AE18.8040801@ix.netcom.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2007-12/txt/msg00113.txt.bz2 On Dec 5, 2007 3:30 AM, Lionel B wrote: > On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:44:24 -0800, Thomas Dineen wrote: ... > > I think the idea here is the make the S/W easier to access and use, ... > So it's a little tricky to build from source and install a large, > complex, sophisticated, cross-platform, open source compiler suite. How > surprising. Now... when did *anyone* - average user or not - build and > install a MS compiler suite from source (apart from an MS employee)? ... > I suspect you will find that the "average user" of GCC is using a pre- > built GCC configured for easy install in their environment by some kindly > package maintainer - and in "environment" I include MS Windows (cf. > MinGW, Cygwin, etc.). Not so different, then, from installing a MS > compiler (except, obviously, cheaper, better, cross-platform and open > source). Game, set, and match to Lionel! -Tom