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Re: $tooldir
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: $tooldir
- From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva at dcc dot unicamp dot br>
- Date: 01 Feb 1999 15:09:51 -0200
- Cc: Manfred Hollstein <manfred at s-direktnet dot de>, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- References: <3746.917888579@hurl.cygnus.com>
On Feb 1, 1999, Jeffrey A Law <law@hurl.cygnus.com> wrote:
> 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.
Ok, I'll add this to my currently long and ever growing to-do list,
with very low priority.
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Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil