Re: Filesystem compatability ... [MINTOS]

[shenson@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Stephen Henson)]

Well not everyone wants to distribute sources and runtime support is rather
bettter if sources aren't available. The alternative is to supply two binaries
(or more). At the same time not everyone wants to pull large quantities of
sources just to change a comple switch (this happended with gcc until relatively
recently, where it didn't tolerate case senstive filesystems properly because
it wasn't compiled with Mintlib).
	I don't see why a fairly universal binary configurer can't be written,
which would handle standrad things like default unixmode settings and have a
small extra text file which would list symbol names/types and relevant questions.
E.g. gcc could ask where the include/lib/binaries were.
Steve.