Refresher on gcc port and the executables

Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com
Thu May 23 03:07:12 PDT 2013


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Tabitha McNerney wrote:
>
> For a particular project I am working on, my boss asked me if there was a
> way to compile some code from source (which depends on and will use of some
> advanced cryptography potentially for highly sensitive business), such that,
> in his words, "it is not dependent on any compiler tools from a corporation
> like Apple, Google or Microsoft" and he said "it should be the same as what
> is used by open source Linux distros". So this would mean gcc but it makes
> me think I might need to do something unique such as making gcc from source
> on my own since my boss doesn't want there to be any company fingerprints
> (he's really worried but also its his job that could be on the line). For
> special purposes, is it fairly easy to make gcc and g++ from source, on OS
> X, in a way that is in fact "divorced" from the Apple tools?

Read this:
    http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/04/15/strange-loops-dennis-ritchie-a/

Mojca


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