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Re: Serious Solaris problem (effects egcs-1.2)
- To: law at cygnus dot com, mark at codesourcery dot com
- Subject: Re: Serious Solaris problem (effects egcs-1.2)
- From: mrs at wrs dot com (Mike Stump)
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 08:00:50 -0700
- Cc: egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 23:57:36 -0700
> From: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
> >>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey A Law <law@upchuck.cygnus.com> writes:
> Jeffrey> Other thoughts?
> I've always found it confusing,
Ditto.
> and apparently so have some others, that GCC doesn't search the
> user's path for as. Well, actually, it does on some platforms and
> not on others.
Inconsistency offers us a support burden.
> Jim Wilson and others made some pretty coherent arguments defending
> this inconsistency, but it still seems to me that it would be
> simpler to search the path.
Either that, or fixate the path to the found as into the compiler tree
at install time. The user should be able to override with a -B flag
(if I understand the -B flag). The last avoids the bug that the fix
that is now in there fixes, while the first solution I don't believe
does.
I don't know what I prefer. Fixating the path I don't think is
_wrong_. I mean, if we feature test the path found as, changing that
choice via a users path is slightly wrong anyway.