On 3/6/19 7:32 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2019-03-06 at 18:13 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> That is the best answer here. For some obscure reason more and more >> people have forgotten that open source means you can freely go get >> the sources and just build it. However the distro-masses are large >> and loud and they just want what they want and no idea that the whole >> source base is there freely. > > Building a complex piece of software like GCC is not quite so easy as > "./configure && make", especially when you need it to interoperate with > systems that may have been built with much older versions (there are > issues around STL versioning etc. which are not always trivial to > resolve). > > I get why people are more interested in having someone else do that > work for them: not everyone has time to learn to do everything. > "not everyone has time ..." The most true words on the internet today. dc
