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Re: Now GCC is really hosed...
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Now GCC is really hosed...
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 23:23:44 +0200 (CEST)
- cc: Bruce Korb <bkorb at sco dot com>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, GNU Compiler <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Richard Henderson wrote:
> No, I think generated files should only be built for snapshots
> and releases. It's not unreasonable, IMO that building CVS
> sources requires bison and gperf and autofoo and whatnot installed.
Ah, here is the point where I have to jump in: yacc and bison are rather
common, so it's not that bad if we require them, but auto* etc. certainly
are not that common.
Removing files generated by such tools from CVS will strictly reduce the
ability of folks like Kaveh or myself to continually test GCC on not-so-
common platforms (as we are often using guest accounts with limited disk
space to do so, for example).
In addition, we have been recommending that folks use CVS sources instead
of FTP snapshots; completely removing generated files from CVS would work
in the opposite direction.
Gerald
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