Re: gcc SRPM

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:45:28 +0800, John Summerfield
<[email protected]> 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?

My question was not "why do you want the source?"
It was "why do you want a SRPM?"

As it happens, he wanted to look at building a newer gcc. I don't
think a SRPM will be terribly useful then, since newer sources
certainly aren't going to be available in SRPM format, nor will the
SRPM give much insight into the steps needed to build a new gcc (which
may involve building a new cctools or whatever, if I'm not mistaken).

 -- Finlay