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From: bart <bc@freeuk.com>
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Subject: Re: Baby X is bor nagain
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On 03/07/2024 00:58, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> 
>> On 02/07/2024 16:00, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>> bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 01/07/2024 13:09, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>>>> bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Using products like tcc doesn't mean never using gcc. (Especially on Linux
>>>>>> where you will have it installed anyway.)
>>>>> The parenthetical remark is wrong.
>>>>
>>>> You mean it is possible for a Linux installation to not have gcc
>>>> preinstalled?
>>> I mean that saying "on Linux ... you will have it installed anyway" is
>>> wrong.
>>>
>>>> Sure, although in the dozen or two versions I've come across, it
>>>> always has been.
>>> I'm not sure what you mean by a "version".  Every version (in the sense
>>> of release number) of a source-only Linux distribution will have gcc
>>> installed, but is that all you mean?  Source-only distributions are rare
>>> and not widely used.
>>
>> No I mean binary distributions (unless the install process silently
>> compiled from source; I've no idea).
> 
> Which ones?
> 

I really, really don't remember. I've tinkered with Linux every so often 
for 20, maybe 25 years. You used to be able to order a job-lot of CDs 
with different versions. Few did much.

Then there were various ones I tried under Virtual Box. All had gcc.

I must have tried half a dozen, maybe more, on RPis. Those I know all 
had gcc too.  So did a laptop or two with Linux. As does WSL now.

I'm not sure what you're trying to do here.

I will admit that it might not be 100% certain that a Linux OS on a 
system on which someone is planning to run a C compiler will have gcc 
installed, although that is not my experience.

Will that do?