On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Roy Marples wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 06:28 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > project X says their code should be compiled with GCC, should we deny > > > the ICC users the ability to compile it? > > > > that is project X's decision and no one else's. dont pull a stallman on > > us and force everyone to subscribe to your ideas of "freedom". there's a > > reason we told him to take a hike. > > We change upstream decisions all the time via patches and USE flags when > we as developers think that it could be done better, to make it fit into > our file layout.
some people (because it's in *their* interest to do so) have the option of maintaining changes. that does not mean anyone is required to do so. glibc for example provides no support unless you build it with gcc. so how does icc build it ? they implement the *useful* GNU extensions. -mike
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