[H-GEN] Richard Stallman's presentation in Brisbane.

Stephen Thorne stephen at thorne.id.au
Mon Aug 30 20:50:08 EDT 2010


On 2010-08-31, Russell Stuart wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 02:51 +1000, David Seikel wrote:
> > Probably just as many systems out there with Linux kernels that don't
> > use GNU software.
> 
> Can you name one?  As far as I am aware, the kernel can only be compiled
> with gcc.
> 
> In fact all BSD variants use gcc as well, and that includes Apples OSX
> and iOS.

The guy who wrote tcc (which allows #!/usr/bin/tcc for C 'scripts') made a few
modifications to the kernel source to provide the ability to boot the kernel
from source code.

http://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html

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Regards,
Stephen Thorne
Development Engineer
Netbox Blue



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