Comments on: gcc3 and propolice

By: Lazarus

Lazarus — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 19:56:07 +0000

I am not entirely sure about the Gentoo thing. The neat thing about both OpenBSD and (now) DragonFly is that ProPolice is enabled by default, and Gentoo is more of a meta-distribution designed to allow one to build it any way they like; meaning no defualt *anything*.

Please correct me if I’m wrong on this point, but I do not believe that ProPolice is enabled out of the box on Gentoo, and I really don’t care to spend the few hours it’ll take me to read the massive amounts of documentation required for me to install it myself just to check.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 14:54:05 +0000

I stand corrected! One more reason to use either OpenBSD, DragonFly or Gentoo.

By: clacke

clacke — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 09:43:57 +0000

> but from what I’ve seen so far, only OpenBSD
> and DragonFly include it out of the box.

Nope, Gentoo does too.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 03:26:49 +0000

Too bad ProPolice isn’t being integrated into GCC so that more people would bennefit from it. It’s nice that it’s an option for people who know of it’s existence, but from what I’ve seen so far, only OpenBSD and DragonFly include it out of the box.

One more reason to use either OpenBSD or DragonFly I guess ;^)