is --program-prefix still broken?

["Edwards, Phil" <pedwards at ball dot com>]

I tried using the BitRange search engine mentioned on the egcs mailing list
webpage, but it searches separately on 'program' and 'prefix' even when
surrounded by quotes.  So I have no idea how often this has been discussed.

The only mention that I found was a thread in last July, starting with this
message:

    http://www.cygnus.com/ml/egcs-bugs/1998-Jul/0006.html

The thread ended with the bug being "tabled unless somebody else" fixes it
before the regular maintainer got to it.  Assuming he/she hasn't yet had
time, I'd like to offer a suggestion:

If --program-prefix=FOO does not, in fact, prepend FOO to the filenames,
then that option should /at least/ be removed from the output of --help (in
my worthless opinion).  Claiming that a program does something when it fails
to do so (and doesn't tell the user) is a big lose.

If, however, the 1.1.2 release fixes this (I've seen the webpage but haven't
yet retrieved it), then I'll cheerfully go away.  :-)


Phil

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