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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!porpoise!humu!pegasus!richard From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit) Message-ID: <1992Sep7.153453.7370@pegasus.com> Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu References: <1992Sep4.234429.18294@newsgate.sps.mot.com> <QG0JYC1@taronga.com> <1992Sep06.065525.8475@kithrup.COM> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 15:34:53 GMT Lines: 18 >>You're assuming that "posix compliant" means anything actually useful. >>From what I've seen it's seriously incomplete for any real applications, >>and so amounts to no more than a checkmark on a requirements sheet. > >I don't know about that. gcc, gas, GNU make, the GNU binutils (and, >perforce, the GNU BFD library) can all be built in a POSIX-only environment. >(They can do this, partially, because they supply lots of what the need, but >that's okay.) If you're saying that POSIX specifies *everything* necessary to build those GNU products, I think you are mistaken. POSIX is too limited to be worthwhile. -- Richard Foulk richard@pegasus.com