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Re: What are PLUGINCC & PLUGINCFLAGS in gcc/Makefile.in?
- From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
- To: Basile Starynkevitch <basile at starynkevitch dot net>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 17:02:51 +0200
- Subject: Re: What are PLUGINCC & PLUGINCFLAGS in gcc/Makefile.in?
- References: <20100527082855.GA22955@hector.lesours>
> It seems that these make variables are not needed exactly for plugin
> support, but to compile plugins, in particular those in the testsuite.
"Compiler needed for plugin support" is supposed to mean compiler needed to
compile plugins here, it's the build machinery.
> Perhaps we should add a comment in the gcc/Makefile.in, something like
>
> ## the PLUGINCC, PLUGINCFLAGS, PLUGINLIBS variables are used to
> ## compile plugins, notably from the testsuite. They may change when
> ## bootstrapping the compiler, e.g. in stage2 ...
Yes, they are instantiated by the configure machinery at each stage into the
appropriate values, which vary with each stage.
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Eric Botcazou