Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com> wrote:

> On May 31, 2007, at 8:00 AM, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> >>> But considering that Solaris 10 is shipped with a fine working GCC
> >>> it is probably a waste of time anyway.
> >>
> >>   ...assuming one compiler is just as good as the other, anyway.
> >
> > The compiler will only be used to bootstrap the toolchain. If you  
> > manage
> > to use SUNWspro for that you might get faster builds on Solaris SPARC.
> > But the binaries produced by the build should be the same.
> 
>    Am I misunderstanding you, or are you suggesting that the binaries  
> produced by the SunStudio compiler will be the same as those produced  
> by GCC?

As Matthias pointed out, the host compiler is only used to bootstrap
the NetBSD compiler and other build tools.  The rest of the system is
compiled using the NetBSD in-tree gcc.

NetBSD build machinery has provisions for using a different compiler,
that you can specify using EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN variable, but I don't
think anyone tried to use it for anything other than a different
version of gcc.

SY, Uwe
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