*nix on "classic" systems

[Angel Martin Alganza]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 04:42:58AM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
 
> This is actually true only if you expect to compile stuff on it, or use
> recently-added features (the former because current's gcc is a pig).
> Stick to features in 4.4 and don't compile stuff and you can run
> remarkably lean.

Well, as long as I get binary packages for Vim, screen, Ion3 and, of
course, ssh, I don't need to do any compilations on most of my boxes.

> Especially, I'd like to hear about an open-source C compiler that (a)
> supports at least sparc, i386, mips, and arm - those being the CPUs I
> care about at the moment - and (b) is not a resource pig.

The uClibc libraries focus on embeded systems, isn't there a C
compiler which does the same, maybe?

Cheers,
Ángel

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