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Re: 'gcc' Software


On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 04:04:16PM -0400, Janet Casey wrote:
> Hello! My name is Janet Casey and I'm working for the Free Software
> Foundation assembling a database of free software world wide, which is
> why I'm writing to you.
>
> We have this address listed as the maintainer for this package. Can
> you take a quick look through the information I've assembled to see
> if everything is correct and if there's anything I should add? I'd
> appreciate it greatly.

I can speak to only a few of these.


> %%full-description: The GNU Compiler Collection is a full-featured
> ANSI C compiler with support for K&R C as well. GCC provides many
> levels of source code error checking traditionally provided by other
> tools (such as lint), 

... although existing free 'lint' implementations are even more
thorough: e.g. lclint.

> produces debugging information, and can perform
> many different optimizations to the resulting object code. The g++
> compiler (for C++) has been put into its own package

Not true.  g++ comes with gcc.

> %%developers:

See the MAINTAINERS file at top level of the distribution.

> %%repository: pserver: anoncvs@anoncvs.cygnus.com:/cvs/gcc

Typoed. :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.cygnus.com:/cvs/gcc

Also see http://gcc.gnu.org/cvs.html

> %%related: gdb

binutils, make, bison, flex, lint, gperf...

> %%source-language: C
> 
> %%supported-languages: C, C++, Objective C

+ Fortran 77, Java, Chill.  Fortran 95 is being developed, Pascal and
  Ada front ends exist but are not integrated

> %%use-requirements: glibc, cpp, binutils

cpp is included with gcc.  I wouldn't bother listing glibc, everything
needs the C library.

> %%build-prerequisites:

make, texinfo, bison, gperf (patched), gettext, dejagnu, autoconf, ...

Also, you have to have a C compiler already - it might seem
obvious but we get asked all the time.

zw

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