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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [SM-Grimoire] gcc and languages
  • Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:37:16 -0800

Today I was thinking (yes, I /do/ that on occasion, and sometimes it's even
good
;)) about our gcc spell. Perhaps it'd be a good idea to split it and have gcc
provide only c (or maybe c++ as well, but that'd break a smooth separation)
and
then have g<lang> as well. This way packages that depend on a certain langauge
(scilab and others need Fortran [g77]) can do so, without have to just check
for a `g77` executable.

Proposed packages:
gcc - GNU C
g++ - GNU C++
gobjc - GNU Objective C
gcj - GNU Java
gf77 - GNU Fortran 77 (and some 90)
gada - GNU Ada 95

If we wanted to, we could also split up the gcc2 spell in a similar way:
gcc2 - GNU C 2.95
g++2 - GNU C++ 2.95
...

Any others? Is this a bad idea (I'm not thinking so, but that's just me ;)).
This would also make it easier for those wanting to try a new language (or
package that needs one) so that they don't have to recompile all their
compilers just to add (or remove) one language.

-sandalle

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