[Ilugc] why GNU should not be added to linux
- From: prem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Prem Kurian Philip)
- Date: Mon Jun 7 11:16:19 2010
From: Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Sunday 06 June 2010 02:34:37 Prem Kurian Philip wrote:
By the way, most GNU projects will compile quite happily using ICC. Even
the Linux kernel could conceivably be modified to NOT use GCC extensions
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thus allowing it to be easily compiled by other compilers.
just curious - did linus use gcc when he first wrote his kernel?
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I think he did. My memory of this is a little vague but the first time I
used Linux sometime in 1992/1993 or so, it required gcc. But Linus did
start developing Linux on Minix (I think he used Gcc 1.37 initially and
then 1.4) and only later on removed Minix apps and replaced then with GPL
apps. Actually one of the first things he ported over when Linux became
self-hosting was gcc and bash.
I think 386BSD etc continued to use their own compilers.
Regards,
Prem
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