Re: Serious problems accessing cvs

[Russ Allbery <rra at stanford dot edu>]

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?  :)

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>