Re: GCC 2.95 does not look in /usr/local/include

[Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>]

On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 08:35:15AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> I sent a patch many years for Linux to make gcc as the vendor compiler and
> it was accepted. However, egcs didn't have the patch and I sent it again.
> This time I was told egcs wouldn't be used as the vendor compiler and
> someone might even remove my patch from the gcc subdirectory. That might be
> ok since there was gcc 2.7.2.3. Now egcs == gcc. My patch should go in.

I do not think this is a good idea.  Vendors may use Gnu C as the
system compiler, but that does not make us, the gcc team, vendors. 

Vendors apply patches to packages to make them configure and install
how they please.  Which means that anything we do will probably be
slightly wrong.  We're better off not overwriting the distributed
compiler and letting some experienced user mess with their own box.

Further, the vendors already have the package configury to get gcc
installed where they want it, so they gain nothing by such a change.



r~