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Re: Serious problems accessing cvs
- To: rra at stanford dot edu (Russ Allbery)
- Subject: Re: Serious problems accessing cvs
- From: "Alain Magloire" <alain at qnx dot com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 22:36:47 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
>
> David O'Brien <obrien@NUXI.com> writes:
>
> > The following binaries are available, so Modula-3 must have been
> > available on them. I am not claining that CVSup is available for
> > platform someone might want it for. But the list below would probably
> > cover 80% of the GCC CVS consumers.
>
> If they're willing to use binaries. I'll raise the point that I generally
> raise when CVSup comes up, namely that I've been through the process of
> compiling Modula-3 and CVSup using the recommended Modula-3 compiler on a
> Solaris system and I'm not ever going to do that again. It was the single
> most painful build that I think I've ever had to do.
>
> If they've now released a Modula-3 compiler that doesn't have hardcoded
> dependencies on /usr/ucblib and the local X libraries, that uses standard
> autoconf, and that, if it must build its own make replacement as it goes,
> it at least doesn't attempt to *install itself* as part of the compilation
> process, then definitely CVSup is a nice product that should be
> considered. But I couldn't recommend the experience I had.
>
> Alternatively, if the above sounds absolutely nothing like the experience
> of anyone else who's built the Modula-3 compiler, may I suggest
> documentation improvements? :)
Speaking with my heart, I've been through the exercise after hearing
the wonders of CVSup. Especially on system like QNX were the default
compiler is Watcom, absolute Hell.
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au revoir, alain
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