Re: gcc SRPM

Finlay Dobbie wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:37:40 -0500, Brian Sammon
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>Is there an SRPM for gcc?
>>I don't see one in http://www.opendarwin.org/downloads/7.2.1/SRPMS/
> 
> 
> Just out of interest, why do you want a SRPM?


Because the licence under which Apple uses it requires that it be 
provided to all its customers who want it?

Customer in this context means anyone who legitimately has the binaries, 
ppc or ia32.

There are many reasone one might want the source:
	to build with different optimisations
	To try to diagnose problems which might be bugs
	To see whether Apples has made changes that might usefully be rolled 
onto mailine gcc (or some BSD or Linux modifications)
	Because one is passing on a copy of Darwin and wants to be able to, or 
has been asked to, provide the source for GPL and LGPL components.


One doesn't have to give a reason (or even to have one).