On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 09:23:07AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 12:49:29PM +0000, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > On 21 Sep 1999, Ruud de Rooij wrote:
> > 
> > > Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > 
> > > > So, what, if anything, is being built with egcs? 
> > > 
> > > Nothing, since egcs does not exist in the distribution anymore.
> > 
> > Well, egcs 1.1.2-2 is still in my source archives, so someone must be
> > using it. egcs64 is currently being used to build Ultra kernels, so I
> > figured the 32 bit egcs was being used for some purpose as well.
> > 
> egcs isn't used anymore and is obsoleted by the latest gcc 2.95.x line.

Not true. The Hurd port is still using egcs. We would like to switch to gcc
2.95.x, but it has some problems. Mark Kettenis is working on it, and I am
sure we will follow very soon, but anyway, currently egcs is the only option
for us.

(gcc 2.95.x couldn't compile itself last time I tried).

Marcus

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