On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:15:43PM -0700, Taj Khattra wrote: > > The worst of it is -- on a number of occasions glibc developers stated > > that they have no interest in supporting compilers other than gcc. > > http://udrepper.livejournal.com/7326.html: > The only OSes supported in the [glibc] tree are Linux and to some > extend Hurd. > ... > For my new projects the razor is even sharper. Only Linux is supported... > > we should be eternally grateful :)
What is fascinating is a kind of rhetoric he uses. Even though his intent seems to be just the opposite one he comes across very much like being a part of a "violent minority" of a particular sort. Although, his mental condition, which manifests itself a bit in his writing, could help explain why it takes 31 lines of code to just declare a couple of function in glibc. Which makes me wonder -- with glibc and gcc descending into this political madness doesn't it actually kill the FSF/GNU movement ? Thanks, Roman. P.S. I've kind of come to terms with the fact that working for Sun and porting Sun's compilers to Linux makes me a "violent minority" but I'm not sure whether it also makes me "pure evil" ;-)
