darwin may lose primary target status on FSF gcc

[vincent habchi]

Le 19 sept. 2009 à 19:15, Jack Howarth a écrit :

> ps You do realize that we are using gcc 4.2.1 (and not 4.2.4 or a  
> later
> gcc release) only because of the GPLv3 license. Few people are aware
> but Apple's programmers (who are the FSF darwin maintainers) are not
> allowed to read the gcc mailing lists or the gcc source code since
> GPLv3 came into effect. They can only review and approve patches  
> submitted
> for the FSF gcc that impact the darwin port. Fortunately that has
> allow me to keep the wheels on FSF gcc on darwin so far (knock on  
> wood).

I wonder if NetBSD has moved to 4.3. If I remember correctly, before I  
switched to Mac OS, they wanted to turn to LLVM because they refused  
to accept GPLv3.

Vincent