Re: PATCH wwwdocs: mention Sun make problems, offer egcstensionspatch

[Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>]

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> I think I've downed all these windmills now.  Time to pick up
> Toon's advice and lay on my back and think of nothing (again).
> 
> Index: egcstensions.html
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> RCS file: /egcs/carton/cvsfiles/wwwdocs/htdocs/egcstensions.html,v
> retrieving revision 1.6

Based on your submission I installed the following to egcstensions.html.

(I rewrote your patch to improve markup, and because, for example, I don't
think we want to recommend srcdir == objdir in our documentation, as this
is unsupported, as far as I understand.)

Thanks!
Gerald

Index: egcstensions.html
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RCS file: /egcs/carton/cvsfiles/wwwdocs/htdocs/egcstensions.html,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -r1.6 egcstensions.html
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> <h2><a name="sun-make">Patch to build elsewhere than in the source
> directory using Sun make</a></h2>
> 
> <p>Contact: <a href="mailto:hp@axis.se">hp@axis.se</a></p>
> 
> <p>By means of a <a href="ftp://ftp.axis.se/pub/users/hp/gcc/gcc-2.95.1-sun-make-patch1.txt">patch for GCC 2.95.1</a> Sun make should be able to bootstrap
> the compiler even when using Sun make, which is not sufficiently standards
> compliant, for a <i>srcdir</i> != <i>objdir</i> setup.</p>
> 
> <p>Apply it with (for example) GNU patch:
> <blockquote><code>
> patch -p1 -d <i>/path/to/gcc-2.95.1</i> &lt;
> gcc-2.95.1-sun-make-patch1.txt
> </code></blockquote>
> This patch is not supposed to interfere with proper building and
> installation on non-Sun systems or when using GNU make.</p>
> 
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