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From: march@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: NeXT vs. FSF on GCC
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Date: 29 Sep 89 14:04:00 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!march    Sep 29 09:04:00 1989


So those of you who have 1.0 by now, tell me ... what did NeXT do about
the GCC distribution problems.  At the time of the release of 0.9, NeXT was
not supplying their machine specific diffs to the standard GCC distribution.
This is in violation of the GNU copyleft contract (if I am not mistaken).
If you will recall, you had to link the object files supplied by NeXT to
get an executable version of gcc.  

Remember the README file in /lib/gnu_cc?
	"This is only a temporary solution to a licensing problem that we
	 hope to have resolved by the NeXT 1.0 software release.  Please
	 run 'make install' in the current directory to enable the compiler."

Well, what happend in 1.0?  As some of you might know, FSF just released
a brand spanking new version of GCC -- 1.36!  What if I want to use it
instead of 1.35?  Must I wait till NeXT gets around to 1.1?  Let's hope
not ...

-Steve

(If I missed any past postings on this matter ... sorry for being ignorant.
In which case email would be preffered.)

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