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Re: $tooldir
- To: Alexandre Oliva <oliva at dcc dot unicamp dot br>
- Subject: Re: $tooldir
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at hurl dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 10:02:59 -0700
- cc: Manfred Hollstein <manfred at s-direktnet dot de>, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <ork8y2cx7d.fsf@araguaia.dcc.unicamp.br>you write:
> Yep, the original idea was that, but then I found out it was not such
> a good idea
:-)
> because it was not possible to override the hard-coded
> names, whereas it is possible to override any other hard-coded path.
> Maybe assuming -B is supposed to override it is not a good idea, and
> we should just add new flags to allow the user to specify the linker
> and the assembler names.
I think I'd prefer -B to yet another option which is similar, but not quite
the same as some other option :-)
So, let's allow -B to override the absolute path. Don't forget to mention
it somewhere in the docs though.
jeff