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Re: RFC: Removing --enable-win32-registry?
- From: "E. Weddington" <eric at ecentral dot com>
- To: Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 09:22:13 -0600
- Subject: Re: RFC: Removing --enable-win32-registry?
- References: <4073E6EA.13846.19241F28@localhost>
On 7 Apr 2004 at 21:44, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> | Can you explain a little more about how it's supposed to work?
> |
> | Yes, I've read: <http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html>
> |
> | What I don't understand is whether it's supposed to look up the
> registry key
> | *at the time of installing gcc, i.e. at 'make install'*, or whether it
> means
> | that it looks up the registry key when gcc *executes*.
> When it executes.
>
> I haven't heard from anyone who actually *uses* it, though, so....
I have actually enabled it. It hasn't caused any problems, though since it's
unclear to me as to what it's actually supposed to do, I don't know how useful
it is.
If it is supposed to work only when installing gcc (after build) then I would
think that it is pretty useless because AFAIK everybody seems to go the route
of specifying --prefix as the installation location, which works.
Eric