Status of libtool 2.2.X?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:07:24PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> So gcc is the compiler everywhere these days?  Note this is a genuine
> question -- I haven't used anything besides Linux in so long I don't
> know whether Sun or anyone else is shipping their own C compiler anymore.

The *BSDs have recently been talking about dropping GCC and adopting a
major rewrite of the original PCC.  The Portable C Compiler was the
basis of things like Sun cc.  Ironically it was liberated by
SCO^WCaldera.

Some more interesting stuff about this here:

  http://lwn.net/Articles/255558/

Rich.

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