Tom St Denis <tstdenis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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? This is free software. As the saying goes: patches welcome. Most of us are not going to write those scripts, because for simple cases we know the few steps required, and for complicated cases we use existing scripts like crosstool or buildroot. Ian
