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Re: PATCH for new flag `--enable-libs-in-libsubdir'


On Wed, 24 June 1998, 09:32:12, manfred@s-direktnet.de wrote:

 > On Wed, 24 June 1998, 01:05:55, law@hurl.cygnus.com wrote:
 > 
 >  > 
 >  >   In message <13707.58705.347842.433778@saturn.hollstein.net>you write:
 >  >   >  > Anyway, right now I'm tempted to recommend against this patch, though
 >  >   >  > maybe we could have some configure option to enable this behavior? 
 >  >   >  > (or document better how to make existing configure options do the
 >  >   >  > same thing).
 >  >   > 
 >  >   > OK, this patch adds the new configure option `--enable-libs-in-libsubdir'
 >  >   > (do you know a better name?), which is disabled by default
 >  >   > (== current behaviour). Enabling it has the following effects:
 >  > Maybe --enable-version-specific-libstdc++?  Since what it's doing is
 >  > allowing us to keep a set of libstdc++ includes & libraries for each
 >  > specific version of the compiler.  I'm not particularly fond of either,
 >  > so use whichever one you like.
 > 
 > I like your suggestion, too. BUT, currently the configure scripts
 > would fail using such a flag, because they don't replace '+' with
 > e.g. 'x'. I could fix that, too, if you'd like me to do so:
 > 
 [snip]

Forget about that, autoconf needs to be fixed for this. I could
fix the Cygnus configure scripts, though. Shall I?

manfred


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