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:To get around distribution patches that almost always exist, licensing reasons, to create a reproducible environment on a variety of different development platforms.. and attempt to curtail the plethora of Cygwin/MinGW/DJGPP users asking dumb questions. So, is that reason enough for ya? --[[User:Brynet-inc|Brynet-Inc]] 06:04, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
::The first reason makes the most sense. Alas, I don't really know what kind of patches are usually there and how they affect code generation and/or linking---perhaps I should look into this. Could you give some examples for the other two reasons? I'm not 100% sure what you had in mind. --[[User:Love4boobies|Love4boobies]] 14:51, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
:::Well, GCC 4.2.1 for example.. it's the last GPLv2 version and contains several code generation bugs that had to be independently fixed, not only that, but the fixes aren't always identical between forks. Also, for someone running on Linux.. they may not wish to use the particular version of GCC that's available. It makes sense to pick a version of GCC/binutils that you've tested extensively for building your kernel/OS, as well as making that environment reproducible on Windows/Linux/OSX/BSD/etc. --[[User:Brynet-inc|Brynet-Inc]] 19:17, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
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