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Re: Illegal instruction (core dumped) on i586
- To: craig at jcb-sc dot com
- Subject: Re: Illegal instruction (core dumped) on i586
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 11:13:49 -0400
- Cc: jbuck at synopsys dot COM, steveo at world dot std dot com, imarkov at cs dot ucla dot edu,john at feith dot com, gcc at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- References: <199908051440.HAA07951@atrus.synopsys.com> <19990805150314.17405.qmail@deer>
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 03:03:14PM -0000, craig@jcb-sc.com wrote:
> I agree with all of the sentiment about the GCC team not having
> producing RPM's as one of its functions.
>
> I'd like to add that my impression is that not just GCC, but GNU
> generally, could benefit the community by looking over the various
> package-management systems (RPMs, and doesn't Debian have one?) and
> figuring out, at least, how best to architect, design, and implement
> the relevant bits of GNU products so GNU maintainers, as well as
> packagers, have an easier life producing robust, portable products.
And as one of the people who makes the Debian packages (yes, we have
one), I can say that GCC has gone a long way down that road already.
While the packaging is somewhat complex, it's not at all as bad as I
would have expected from a project of this size.
Dan
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| Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 |
| Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University |
| dan@debian.org | | dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu |
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