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Re: Serious Bugs In Gcc Builds
Lionel B wrote:
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 don't think it would be a radically huge task to get a decent coverage
of configurations [for both GCC and binutils] in some type of wrapper
script. Granted, you can't cover all possible weird configurations, but
why would something that can target the common platforms [e.g. ARM, PPC,
MIPS, x86] be so hard?
But other than that I agree. I've been using GCC [and related tools]
for quite some time, and almost always it's tools I just download as
binaries [or have gentoo build for me]. Having put together my own ARM
cross compiler before, I can say from experience that the process could
be easier.
My 2 cents...
Tom