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Re: "make dist" support
- To: <law at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: "make dist" support
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 19:11:44 +0000 (GMT)
- cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
> In message <Pine.LNX.4.30.0011040003480.29545-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.
> ac.uk>you write:
> > gcc/Makefile.in (and some other files) seems to include some machinery for
> > "make dist" (see targets distdir, diff etc.). It looks like these are
> > obsolete targets creating an old-style gcc-2.8 style distribution; could
> > someone confirm whether these targets are no longer used in creating
> > distribution tarballs and diffs and can safely be removed?
> That stuff is obsolete. I would love a patch to remove all that stuff.
Already done, Mark Mitchell approved the patch.
I suspect there may be more unused junk in the Makefiles (and elsewhere in
the distribution) though. For starters, there's protoize still in the
distribution but no longer built by default - it was suggested a year ago
that it would better move to a separate package.
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk