On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 11:11:12AM +0100, Eric Botcazou wrote: > > It sounds like people are mostly concerned about sun studio and xlc? It > > doesn't seem that hard to provide precompiled binaries for those two > > platforms, and maybe 4.8 binaries for people who want to compile theire > > own gcc from source. > > I'm not sure that we want to enter the business of precompiled binaries.
I don't see a reason not to other than a pretty small amount of work each time we make a release. > Moreover, if we want people to contribute to GCC's development, especially > occasionally to fix a couple of bugs, we need to make it easier to build the > compiler, not the other way around. Well first this would only matter to the 0.01% of people who want to do that on AIX or Solaris machines, not the vast majority of possible contributors who already use clang or gcc as there system compiler. Secondly downloading a tarball isn't very difficult and arguably providing them makes it easier for people to test gcc on those systems without having to build it themselves. Thirdly making it easier to work on the compiler and understand it makes things easier for those possible contributors, so if being able to use C++11 advances that goalthings could be better over all for possible contributors with different system compilers. Trev > > -- > Eric Botcazou
