Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!murphy!jpradley!jpr From: jpr@jpradley.uucp (Jean-Pierre Radley) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: Development Package? Message-ID: <1990Oct25.231323.26499@jpradley.uucp> Date: 25 Oct 90 23:13:23 GMT References: <274@srchtec.UUCP> Reply-To: jpr@jpradley.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley) Organization: High-Q Lines: 17 In article <274@srchtec.UUCP> mra@srchtec.uucp (Michael Almond) writes: > > I've been looking at various versions of Unix and I'm wondering about >what they all call the Development Package. What this usually includes is the >C compiler and some debugger. > > With the GNU C compiler around, do you really need the Development >Package. I don't know off the top of my head if GNU has a debugger as of yet. >I know their are binary versions of GCC running around on SIMTEL20, among >other places. If I'm not mistaken, there's a "Catch 22" at work here. You can grab the Gnu C compiler source, but in order to to compile the source, you need a compiler... -- Jean-Pierre Radley HIGH-Q jpr@jpradley CIS: 72160,1341