This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of the EGCS project
compiler suite, containing C, C++, Objective-C and Fortran-77, and the
libstdc++ support library. It is derived from a gcc-2.8 snapshot (May
1998) of gcc, which was written by Richard Stallman and a cast of
thousands.  (See "Contributors" in the gcc info documentation for a
full list.)

The compilers are split into several binary packages: (e)gcc (which
has support for C, g++ (which supports C++), gobjc (which supports
Objective C), g77 (supports Fortran) and gpc (supports standard,
extended and Borland Pascal). Beginning with 2.92.21 supports chill
(Chill language) and gcj (Java). This may change in the future.  The egcs
versions of libstdc++ and lib++ are also provided.
Documentation is provided in the packages egcs-docs, g77-doc and gpc-doc.

This package was put together by the Debian EGCS maintainers
<galenh-egcs@debian.org>, with sources obtained from:

  ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/egcs-1.1.1.tar.gz
  ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/infrastructure/libg++-2.8.1.2a-19981218.tar.gz
  ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/beta/gpc-19981218.tar.gz

where yyyymmdd corresponds to the Debian package version.

Changes: see changelog.Debian.gz

EGCS is derived from gcc, and retains the same ownership and copyright.

GCC is Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993,
1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in `/usr/doc/copyright/GPL'.

libg++ is copyright Free Software Foundation, and is licensed under
the GNU Library General Public License which on Debian GNU/Linux
systems can be found as `/usr/doc/copyright/LGPL'.

gpc is copyright Free Software Foundation, and is licensed under the
GNU General Public License which on Debian GNU/Linux systems can be
found as `/usr/doc/copyright/GPL'.
