Woodruff: Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with

Posted Mar 5, 2021 7:35 UTC (Fri) by dvdeug (guest, #10998)
In reply to: Woodruff: Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with by farnz
Parent article: Woodruff: Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with

Are you going to compile the GNU utilities on a compiler that wasn't supported to begin with? It seems weird to respond to a complaint about people compiling for unsupported architectures to propose that you can begin to compile everything with a compiler that isn't supported upstream.

Woodruff: Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with

Posted Mar 5, 2021 9:28 UTC (Fri) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

It puts you in exactly the same position that you're in now, but with a suite of compilers that support all the languages you want - remember that while the GNU utilities are only supported upstream with GCC, nothing is supported on your platform until you have a working compiler.

Thus, you're providing the support for everything - and I would have as much time for you complaining that GNU utilities don't work on your new platform as I have for people complaining that Rust doesn't work on their niche platform (none at all - you're the one doing something that upstream isn't supporting, you deal with the fallout).

And depending on what you're doing, you might not need the GNU utilities at all - Busybox, for example, provides alternatives to the GNU utilities.