[rescue] Anal-Retentiveness and Source Code

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:16:50PM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> See?  I trusted Sun to be able to download and build GCC with a sensible
> set of dependencies (like, oh, the -linker- it -has- to work with to build
> shared libs and executables) and in a sensible configuration, and it
> burned me.  The whole time I thought I was just being anal-retentive
> about this on Solaris, but now I'm finally justified.  Old man Murphy was
> sitting right there in SFWgcc grinning at me.
> Not that Sun's the only culprit here.  I've had this experience with SGI's
> precompiled freeware and even with DeadRat/SPARC 5.2.  I just really don't
> trust vendors to build open-source software competently anymore.

Thats why I only use SFWgcc long enough to *recompile* gcc from source.

bill

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Bill Bradford
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