On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Robert Millan<r...@aybabtu.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 08:34:41PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: >> Haiku can be compiled and can use either gcc 4.x or gcc2.95. The main >> reason for them to keep gcc 2.95 possibility is the binary >> compatibility with BeOS. As François Revol explained me on IRC C++ ABI >> changed from gcc2 to gcc3 and as BeOS and Haiku heavily rely on C++ >> it's impossible to launch BeOS apps under Haiku if it was compiled >> with gcc4. > > Ok, but this doesn't seem to be related to GRUB, since we don't need to > link its utils with any proprietary code. Can't they compile runtime > libraries intended for BeOS compatibility using gcc2 and use gcc4 for > GRUB (and, well, just about everything else)? > gcc2 even the one updated by haiku has bugs. I don't think we should go long way just to support it. Hence I withdraw my request for holding this patch back because of it > -- > Robert Millan > > The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and > how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we > still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >
-- Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
