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Re: $tooldir


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.

-- 
Alexandre Oliva  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva  aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil



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