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Re: gcc_version
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: gcc_version
- From: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 12:27:16 +0200
- Cc: manfred at s-direktnet dot de, Manfred dot Hollstein at ks dot sel dot alcatel dot de, egcs-patches at cygnus dot com
- References: <Your message of Thu, 25 Jun 1998 08:13:09 MDT. <13713.59639.635878.750449@slsvhmt>
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.