Re: Serious Bugs In Gcc Builds

[Tom St Denis <tstdenis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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