Subject: Re: The mail list in a news group
From: [email-masked] (J.J.Farrell)

23 Jan 1997 03:58:39 -0800
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In-Reply-To: <[email-masked]> from "Carl J R Johansson" at Jan 22, 97 08:15:32 pm
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> From: Carl J R Johansson <[email-masked]>
> 
> On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Jim Balter wrote:
> 
> > For those familar with it, "GNU development tools" does not mean "a
> > compiler".  It includes the entire c library, at a minimum.  The page
> > goes on:
>
> But I don't understand what bash, tar, gzip, ls etc. have to do with
> compiling programs. There are already fully functional equivalents on 
> NT. 
> 
> >     easily configure and build many GNU tools from source (including
> >     rebuilding the gnu-win32 development tools themselves under x86 NT).

Note - easily configure and build. The tools come with configuration
and build scripts, and makefiles, which invoke things like tar, gzip,
ls, and so on, and rely on the semantics of bash. Part of the aim of
the exercise is to enable the standard distributions of the tools to
build with minimal changes. Changing all the build scripts and makefiles
to conditionally use NT equivalents of these tools when running on NT,
95 equivalents when running on 95, and GNU equivalents everywhere else, 
is not "minimal changes" even if it is practicably possible, and
contributes to them becoming much more difficult to maintain.

Regards,
		jjf
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