Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will itbecome standard compiler?)

[Pegasus Mc Cleaft]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pegasus Mc Cleaft" <ken at mthelicon.com>
>    If gcc 4.2 && buildtools 2.15 is the end of the road for what BSD is 
> able to include under GPL V2. Can we draw a line under it and continue to 
> include it as buildable with the world if a configure option like "option 
> BUILDGCC42" is in the kernel config file? This way an admin who wanted to 
> build it and use it as a primer could, before downloading the port and 
> building the later versions (if he wanted to, or there organization 
> allowed him to).  Some of the older *nix's I have worked on (OSF/1, HPUX, 
> SCO, etc) have a very basic (but normally optimized compiler) for that 
> platform that is enough to compile a version of gcc that will be used to 
> compile other tools and services.

My appologies for answering my own post, but I must make a new habbit of 
reading what I wrote before hitting the send key!

   I just realized that it would be impossible to to the above without 
already having a compiler! <chuckles> Never mind!

~peg