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Re: Now GCC is really hosed...
- To: Bruce Korb <bkorb at sco dot com>
- Subject: Re: Now GCC is really hosed...
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 16:11:48 +0200 (CEST)
- cc: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, GNU Compiler <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Bruce Korb wrote:
> I am proposing to RE-install them, only to install them in a different
> place. Further, all the non-platform specific generated files would
> be so moved. At configure time, it would be determined whether or not
> the tools exist to regenerate these files. If so, then at build time
> the CVS generated files would be ignored and these files would be
> regenerated during build. If not, then the Makefiles would be told to
> use a script to fetch the files out of the CVS gen tree.
To me, that solution seems to be very desirable, for it caters the needs,
both of developers (with fully equipped boxes) and testers/users (who may
lack on tool or the other).
And as far as I understood you're even going to implement it, right? :-)
Gerald
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Have a look at http://petition.eurolinux.org -- it's not about Linux, btw!