We basically only support 1 or 2 compilers per platform - either the native system compiler, GCC, or both. The problem is that some platforms only have bad native compilers, or gcc is bad on that platform, or both.
Alec Topics Man wrote: > I wondered if the supported toolset base was just too big. Wouldnt it have been >possible to standardise > on a single (or maybe 2) "good" compiler toolset on each platform, and relax >restrictions which are > there because of others? If someone wants to build Mozilla, then they have to get >the toolset. Whether > this costs or not depends on whether the GNU toolset is one of the "good" ones! :) > > Cheers, > > Chris > > Rick Parrish wrote: > > >>Link to the document in question ... >> >>http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/portable-cpp.html >> >>Here's the link to the person's comments on slashdot ... >> >>http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23789&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=2569881#2570009 >> >>What are people's opinions on this? Is this document out of date >>as the above comments suggest? >> >>-rick >> >
