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Re: Proposal: Require that GAS be built before GCC in a unified tree
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 00:11:57 -0500
- Subject: Re: Proposal: Require that GAS be built before GCC in a unified tree
- References: <20030301050932.GA4263@doctormoo>
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 12:09:32AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> The point of this proposal is that GCC's configure.in has a ludicrous
> number of tests for assembler features which split into two: one if
> there's an actual assembler to test, one if it hasn't been built yet
> (which does hairy version-number examination).
>
> If we required that GAS build before GCC in a unified tree, we could
> eliminate that half of the code, and just use the standard tests on the
> newly built gas. It would be a great savings in clarity.
>
> What do people think?
Don't you need the version number grubbing anyway for a host-x-host
build, if you can't run the newly built GAS?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer