Re: Serious Bugs In Gcc Builds

["Tom Browder" <tom dot browder at gmail dot com>]

On Dec 5, 2007 3:30 AM, Lionel B <lionelb.nospam@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:44:24 -0800, Thomas Dineen wrote:
...
> >      I think the idea here is the make the S/W easier to access and use,
...
> So it's a little tricky to build from source and install a large,
> complex, sophisticated, cross-platform, open source compiler suite. How
> surprising. Now... when did *anyone* - average user or not - build and
> install a MS compiler suite from source (apart from an MS employee)?
...
> I suspect you will find that the "average user" of GCC is using a pre-
> built GCC configured for easy install in their environment by some kindly
> package maintainer - and in "environment" I include MS Windows (cf.
> MinGW, Cygwin, etc.). Not so different, then, from installing a MS
> compiler (except, obviously, cheaper, better, cross-platform and open
> source).

Game, set, and match to Lionel!

-Tom