Re: gcc SRPM

On Feb 24, 2005, at 4:45 PM, John Summerfield wrote:

> 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).

Don't confuse Apple with OpenDarwin here. You can find Apple's gcc  
source at:

<http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/tarballs/other/gcc 
-1495.tar.gz>

If OpenDarwin has local changes to gcc, it is up to them to make that  
source available.

Ronnie