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<haberg-1405051145590001@c83-250-195-133.bredband.comhem.se>,
 haberg@math.su.se (Hans Aberg) wrote:

> In article <FFbhe.3167$Y81.1779@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>,
> bolsinga@hotmail.com wrote:
> 
> > >One should be aware of that the GNU and other stuff that comes with the
> > >installation on Macs are often very old. If one wants to have the latest
> > >version, one has to pick them down, and compile them. This is not so easy
> > >to do with the compiler, which needs hooks to the CPU and the system.
> > 
> > Pretty funny! gcc 4.0 ships as the default compiler on Tiger (which shipped
> > April 29). gcc 4.0 was declared final on April 20. Seems like this gotcha is
> > no longer applicable.
> 
> This is good, because the compiler is what is used to compile all else.
> Apple should take up the strategy to make the latest GCC compiler
> available, if they not already have done that.
> 
> When I speak bout old stuff, then for example, Bison and Flex are really
> old. In order to compile later versions these, one has to update some
> other software as well (speaking about what was supplied with Mac OS
> 10.3). Some stuff is amiss, like TeX, which is used to compile GNU
> documents, and help2man, which is used produce manpages. GNU Emacs is not
> compiled for X-Windows, it seems. And so on.

Just use Fink(http://fink.sourceforge.net/), there are nice people 
maintaining patches to make stuff compile and it handles dependencies 
for you so you can get a wide range of opensource software pretty 
easily.  Its true Apple isn't always shipping the latest and greatest, 
but there are usually ways to get what you want without too much effort, 
IMHO.  

FYI, if there is a particular piece you would like Apple to update, you 
should probably log a bug on Radar(http://bugreport.apple.com/).  It 
still may take them awhile for them to change it(or it may not happen at 
all due to some other incompatibility), but otherwise they'll have no 
idea what their customers want.
Micah