[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       pcc-list
Subject:    Re: [Pcc] Current PCC broken on Ubuntu 12.04
From:       Anders Magnusson <ragge () ltu ! se>
Date:       2014-10-04 8:53:53
Message-ID: 542FB5A1.1040706 () ltu ! se
[Download RAW message or body]

u-lxna@aetey.se skrev den 2014-10-03 16:08:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 03:35:18PM +0200, Anders Magnusson wrote:
>>> Imho this is a part of the "ubuntu-compatibility" or
>>> "multiarch-compatibility" and should be kept well separated from "pcc".
>>>
>> What I want is that anyone can fetch the tarball, unpack on their favourite
>> system,
>> configure, make and use pcc.  It won't work to expect people to do a system-
>> specific package for each OS and architecture.
> But this is what you are doing, in a little more ambitious fashion :)
> putting all of the various adjustments into a single package.
Well, not really :-)

The ability to run "configure && make && make install" should be 
possible for anyone on most target OSes.

The ability to do sort of "yum install pcc" is up to the OS/package 
maintainers.
>
> I always feel a pity of developers spending time on environment-specific
> issues. There is of course nothing wrong with the goal.
>
> Anyway, I'd care more about people having ppc "available" in contrast to
> "compilable". How many of gcc users compile gcc?..
>
The poeple that wants to use the compiler should not need to learn the 
distribution internals.
Hence the ability to just install the tarball.

And I cannot agree more that I would preferably not deal with the 
distributions issues, but this
is the way it is right now.

-- Ragge

_______________________________________________
Pcc mailing list
Pcc@lists.ludd.ltu.se
http://lists.ludd.ltu.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pcc
[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]