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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!uunet!news.cygnus.com!kithrup.com!sef From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: Wishlist: FreeBSD 2.0 Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Message-ID: <CunJFK.82z@kithrup.com> References: <777048964.AA03114@f74.n700.z6.ftn.air.org> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 23:47:43 GMT Lines: 37 In article <777048964.AA03114@f74.n700.z6.ftn.air.org>, Clarence Chu <Clarence.Chu@f132.n700.z6.ftn.air.org> wrote: >I have a wishlist for the upcoming FreeBSD-2.0 >1) that the major number of shared library be '1' with minor number > be increased to make previously compiled binaries to work It'll be 2.0, I am pretty sure. >2) Gcc-2.6X be incorporated so as to facilitate Fresco/X11R6 I don't know if this'll happen; previous versions of gcc were remarkably unstable, and people have gotten rather wary. Pity, that. >4) .....long ( 6 years from AT&T anouncement ) awaited iBCS support. iBCS2 support, at some level, will be there, most likely. It's been reported to run a version of Lotus 1-2-3 v1.0 and uSoft Word (version unknown), and some niggling details are being cleared up. At the moment, though, I'm not sure how useful it will be, as you'd need to get shared libraries from a SCO system. One of the developers is compiling SCO programs on his FreeBSD system using SCO's compiler tools -- pretty impressive, really. >5) cross compiler to ?????? processor can be made using the stock > compiler. There are two problems with doing that: first, it increases the size of the distribution considerably (have you ever *looked* at how large the gcc/config tree is?!); second, it makes it harder to fit into the BSD build tree. For myself, I *like* that it uses a BSD-style Makefile, in the *bsd releases, and I don't need a cross-compiler that often. (When I do, I can grab gcc and build it myself.) Remember that a cross-compiler needs a cross-assembler, a cross-linker, and cross-header files. We're talking about between 10 and 60MBytes of additional disk space, depending.