Postings tagged with GNU
GCC 4.5 - Awesome Release!
GCC 4.5 just was has been released yesterday. It's a really awesome release according to its summary of changes. My favorites:
- The -Wc++-compat option is significantly improved.
- Compilation time for code that uses templates should now scale linearly with the number of instantiations rather than quadratically, as template instantiations are now looked up using hash tables.
- Improved ...
#ifndef LIBRARY_IS_GPL
There are libraries, which are licensed under GPL, instead of LGPL. This puts people under the risk of accidentely violating the copyright of that library, by using the GPL library from some LGPL library for instance. Well, also could be that doing that changes the license of your LGPL library to GPL or whatever. Don't really want to think about the horrible implications of accidently using a GPL ...
Stripping down GNU make
After reading Thomas' rant about automake 1.10 rejecting GNU-makeism in its script I wondered if it wouldn't possible to ship GNU make with all tarballs, instead of all the autotools crap. So I did some experiments this morning.
Raw GNU make 3.81 as distributed by the FSF requires 1.1 MB. After unpacking 6.4 MB of disk space are used:
576 config/
1052 ...
