[GLLUG] FreeBSD has now removed almost all GNU/GPL'd code

[Philip J. Robar]

On Sep 23, 2011, at 5:05 AM, Clay Dowling wrote:

> On 09/23/2011 01:44 AM, Philip J. Robar wrote:
>> So is Clang not ready or are these projects dependent on non-standard GNU/Linux’isms?

> gcc has been the defacto default compiler for most computer platforms for the last two decades. Everything is built around the assumptions of that compiler.  The situation is becoming better, and I'm not sure what packages are still outstanding.  I do know that as of three months ago, 100% error free building of some common graphical toolkits wasn't possible.


[The following is not an attack on the messenger, just the message.]

Once upon a time all the world was a VAX, then it was Solaris, for now the current fad is GNU/Linux. This too will pass. If people understood and wrote software to standards such as SVID, POSIX, FIPS, the Single UNIX Spec, LSB, etc. and held their vendors to them then we wouldn’t need complicated things like autoconf or the poorly conceived #ifdef’s that pollute so much of open source. Assuming a particular compiler is going to be used is a particularly stupid way to develop software.

Phil