Re: [PATCH] Remember configure's options for later recall

[Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 05:55:52PM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote:
> Okay.  Where /do/ additional generated source files for libgcc go?

Nowhere at present.

> So that when users come to us with some freaky weird problem, we have an
> easier way of answering the question, "Did J. Random User configure GCC
> with --with-foo or with --disable-bar?  Or maybe with some rarely-tested
> unusual combination?  Maybe J.R.U. didn't have anything to do with the
> GCC installation; maybe the sysadmin at that site is off his rocker," etc.
> 
> There are a lot of configure --with's and --enable's for v3 that interact
> in really "interesting" ways, and I mean "interesting" in the sense of
> the old Chinese curse.  (And not just for v3, I'm sure.)

Why don't you have it printed out by gcc -v, then?


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