Re: New version of Bob's C compiler

[Harry Kalogirou <harkal@gmx.net>]

Την Πεμ, 25-07-2002 στις 22:56, ο/η Riley Williams έγραψε:

> >> AGAINST: ELKS becomes dependent on having the latest BCC compiler.
> 
> > Is this really much of a drawback? Building bcc isn't that big
> > an issue.
> 
> Are you willing to be the one to deal with all the "ELKS doesn't
> compile" spam that will result from the people who download ELKS onto
> their system, then try to compile it and it throws up lots of error
> messages simply because they have an old version of BCC installed and
> we rely on a new version with lots of enhancements not in the commonly
> installed versions?

A simple BCC version check at the begining of compilation, will solve
all the problems. And for sure the BCC version check is going be much
smaller that this thread in lines.
 
> I'm not - I had enough of that from HarKal when ELKS was sensitive to
> a difference between his system configuration and mine with the result
> that it compiled here but not on his system. We sorted that out a while
> back and removed the said sensitivity from ELKS, but this will bring in
> far more sensitivities than I'm willing to deal with.

Requiring a specific version of some kind of tool is one thing and
requiring specific system configuration is an other. I beleave that we
can safely use the latest compiler; The one that will like to compile
from source, will find a way to get tha compiler.

Harry



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