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Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
- From: Steven Bosscher <stevenb at suse dot de>
- To: Ralf Corsepius <ralf dot corsepius at rtems dot org>
- Cc: Peter Barada <peter at the-baradas dot com>, dewar at adacore dot com, Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM, hjl at lucon dot org, aph at redhat dot com, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>, dje at watson dot ibm dot com, schwab at suse dot de, Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at gcc dot gnu dot org>, pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu, pkoning at equallogic dot com, GCC List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, matt at 3am-software dot com, cow at compsoc dot man dot ac dot uk
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 00:10:48 +0200
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
- References: <17009.2368.986169.753001@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> <20050516144243.50E0198473@baradas.org> <1116279808.8237.625.camel@mccallum.corsepiu.local>
On Monday 16 May 2005 23:43, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 10:42 -0400, Peter Barada wrote:
> > Until package maintainers take cross-compilation *seriously*, I have
> > no choice but to do native compilation of a large hunk of the packages
> > on eval boards that can literally takes *DAYS* to build.
>
> The most amazing fact to me is: Not even GCC seems to take cross-
> compilation seriously :(
BS. Even the large disto builders do cross compilations a lot.
I am getting pretty sick of this. Can we now start discussing
what GCC does do well, or otherwise, for further complaints
remove me from the CC: please.
I can't say all is good about GCC. There are always ways to do
things better. But, as Dewar already pointed out, GCC just can
not be perfect for everyone's needs. I, for one, am very happy
that we are finally pulling GCC out of the 80s, into the 21st
century. The compile time and memory consumption problems are
obviously there, but just complaining is not going to fix them.
Yet complaining is all some people do. It only demotivates me
more to work on these issues that you care about, and I in all
honesty don't give a s*** about.
It is IMVHO rediculous that the list where GCC is bashed the most
is the GCC list itself.
Gr.
Steven