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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