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Re: The preprocessor and lack of support for -V

To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
Subject: Re: The preprocessor and lack of support for -V
From: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
Date: 15 Feb 2001 21:50:57 -0800
Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.32.0102152317040.1790-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk>

"Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> writes:

> I documented in invoke.texi that -V 2.95.2 won't work with GCC 3.0.  I'd
> be happy to see -V and -b go, provided that links by names such as gcc-3.0
> to the driver program get installed by make install so there's a
> functional way of calling older compiler versions.  (See the installation
> projects list.)

A relatively conservative suggestion:

Install the binaries (gcc, g++, gcj, etc) into $(libsubdir),
and create links from $(bindir).
-- 
	--Per Bothner
per@bothner.com   http://www.bothner.com/~per/

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