Re: "proprietary" vs. polluting (was Re: propriatary question)

[Havoc Pennington <rhp zirx pair com>]

On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Brandon S. Allbery wrote:
> 
> A recent (as in, earlier today) message pointed out that "build with egcs" is 
> the "official" fix for a problem in gnome-objc.  I've a few other things that 
> need to be built with egcs on my home system -- and no interest in finding
> out if the same is true on my work Solaris box.
> 

gnome-objc is a totally optional add-on, it is not an official part of
Gnome. In fact I haven't built it in months and I have a complete Gnome
setup and do Gnome development. It is legitimate for C++ and Obj-C code to
require egcs, because gcc 2.7 is broken for those languages. However, all
core code is in C.

Please give specifics on what requires egcs on your home box, and we will
fix it. Even better, get over your "no interest" and try it on Solaris and
report back. We do not have Solaris, and Solaris support will only happen
if Solaris users help. If you aren't going to be part of the solution
though, please don't post about it.

Havoc