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Re: RFC: No recursion into language subdirectories
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at wolery dot cumb dot org>
- Subject: Re: RFC: No recursion into language subdirectories
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 20 Jun 2000 03:30:06 -0300
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <20000619231457.B5412@wolery.cumb.org>
On Jun 20, 2000, Zack Weinberg <zack@wolery.cumb.org> wrote:
> The appended patch changes the Makefiles so we never recurse into
> language subdirectories.
Cool!
> Then there are the bugs this exposes. Starting with the biggest: to
> build front ends other than C, we now must have a compiler that
> supports -c and -o together.
Since front ends other than C are not required to build with anything
other than GCC, no big deal.
> Next, if you try to build the C++ front end with any version of gcc
> prior to 2.96 20000418 or so, you'll trip over a bug in cccp.c where
> #line confuses the header-file search logic, so it won't be able to
> find the right headers to compile parse.c.
No big deal, for the same reasons. But some C++ developers could
complain about this :-(
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