Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!march From: march@m.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: NeXT vs. FSF on GCC Message-ID: <61300015@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 29 Sep 89 14:04:00 GMT Lines: 31 Nf-ID: #N:m.cs.uiuc.edu:61300015:000:1569 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.) =============================================================================== Steve March (H) 328-5176/328-5230 (W) 333-7408 Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois march@cs.uiuc.edu {uunet|convex|pur-ee}!uiucdcs!march /* You are not expected to understand this. */ - UNIX V6 kernel source "Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live." - Albert Einstein ===============================================================================