Re: life ?
  By: Maurice Kinal to Rob Swindell on Mon Mar 02 2020 10:41 pm

 > Hallo Rob!
 >
 >  RS> I'd bet the farm that it'll out live you and me!
 >
 > Speaking for myself, that ain't saying much since I am in my so-called
 > twilight years.

I'm no fan of Java, but I think it still has a lot of momentum and thus, life, 
left.

 >  RS> If you're building clang from source, then yes, you'd need a
 >  RS> compiler to do that.
 >
 > Right.  Same with gcc which I expect to be upgrading soon (9.3.0).
 >
 >  RS> And I wonder why you'd want to.
 >
 > A number of reasons.  Mostly it is a very good distraction for me and has
 > proven itself over the decades to be good exersize for the brain.  For sure
 > I am not in it for the money unless you count the money I've spent over the
 > years.
 >
 >  RS> Got something against gcc?
 >
 > The exact opposite.  The idea of a purely clang built linux-gnu has me
 > intrigued though and I'd like to see one in action, which means I'll have to
 > build it myself given that nobody else appears to be able to, including
 > mandriva which I believe has made misleading statements over this very
 > issue.
 >
 > Can you say otherwise and (more importantly) prove it?

No. I use both gcc and clang daily and have no particular interest in a 
Clang-based GNU/Linux distro. 

                                            digital man

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