Modularization development notes [was Re: RFA sent to the ArchWG]

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Kean Johnston wrote:

> > The talk here was of avoiding this for builds rather than development,
> > presumably?  For development, we'd require GNU tools in terms of GNU
> > autoconf and automake to generate the files anyway.
> Right. Thats what I was trying to say, but you put it much more
> succinctly :) I hope the BSD crowd don't have any issues with
> using the GNU tools in development?

The BSDs already use GCC and GNU binutils and gas, so it is okay. And for
Xorg development, automake, libtool, autoconf, etc can be installed from
packages/ports collections.

Nevertheless, Xorg code for the BSDs hopefully should work with other
compilers, such as Intel icc or tendra.

For example, FreeBSD has support for Intel icc for kernel building and I
read that it creates significantly faster code. Also, I have used tendra
to build some of FreeBSD userland.

(Anyone work on tendra/ten15?)

 Jeremy C. Reed

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