Subject: Re: current on vax, problems
To: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Thomas Dzubin <dzubint@vcn.bc.ca>
List: port-vax
Date: 11/20/2003 05:21:41
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 ragge@ludd.luth.se wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:37:07PM +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 ragge@ludd.luth.se wrote:
> > > Aha! You found the problem in gcc (or did you do a real hack to fix it)?
> > > Good news anyway. That means you fixed it the proper way instead of my
> > > hacks...
> > Am I being stupid, or shouldn't the tools be buildable with any (reasonable)
> > C compiler?  So requiring gcc for a tool is a no-no ?
> Well, libintl doesn't require gcc, but if configure finds gcc it tries
> to use some gcc-special tricks, and if those tricks are broken then
> there is nothing to do...

One of my Winter projects this year is to look into Tendra
(www.tendra.org) since it apparently generates VAX code

GCC is starting to get a bit too bloated for my tastes.

Thomas