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Re: [PATCH] Makefile: Change the default compiler from "gcc" to "cc"

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Dec 21, 2011, 01:33 UTC
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On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Would this affect folks in BSD land negatively?
Probably not.

The people who might notice are the old=time crappy commercial unixes, but they are all dead by now. The kinds where 'cc' isn't even ANSI C, it's K&R and you needed to pay extra for the "real" compiler.

But if those people still exist, they probably haven't figured out CVS yet, and still use RCS or SCCS. Their brains would explode messily if they tried to use git.

                           Linus
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  1. Makefile: Change the default compiler from "gcc" to "cc"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 20, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 21, 2011
  3. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 21, 2011
  4. Linus TorvaldsDec 21, 2011
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