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Re: gcc_version


At 09:03 25.06.98 , Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>  > But, this would break, what Dave and Craig suggested: to be able to
>  > call "make ..." directly in the subdir. I'd say, there's no easy way
>  > round; either we'd have to emit all necessary macros in all generated
>  > Makefiles (easy for Cygnus configure generated ones, but very bad for
>  > autoconf ones - perhaps we could use the same --with-xyz hack...), or
>  > we define them only once in the toplevel Makefile and pass them down.
>Hmmm, there's got to be a sane way to avoid this kind of inconsistency.

Two come to mind:
- separate includeable Makeconfig file
- don't support "cd subdir;make maketarget", but "make subdir/maketarget"
like in glibc

Franz.



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