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Re: [RFC] Suggested replacement for specs and switch handling
- To: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au>
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Suggested replacement for specs and switch handling
- From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 19:30:32 +0100
- Cc: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Fergus Henderson wrote:-
> The problem comes when users want to install e.g. both the Ada and the
> COBOL front-ends, and each of these comes with a modified version
> of the `gcc' driver that adds support for their language, but neither
> driver supports both languages. Getting this to work with binary
> distribution formats like RPM is a real pain.
I don't have any good ideas for this, apart from possibly having a way
to read in an updated hash table at run time. That would still
require it to be built, though, and you run into the same problem -
integrating a new set into the list of currently accepted options
(held where?). Unless the driver always looked in a predefined place
for such a file, it would probably need to be given on the command
line, which would be awkward too.
Neil.