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Re: [PATCH] add --enable-snapshot for defining parsedir & objdocdir
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk>
- Cc: Kelley Cook <kelleycook at wideopenwest dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 20 Oct 2003 11:07:36 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] add --enable-snapshot for defining parsedir & objdocdir
- Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
- References: <3F8F0031.9060602@ford.com> <Pine.LNX.4.58.0310162250170.9485@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk>
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 14:54, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Kelley Cook wrote:
>
> > The basic problem is that since GCC does not require bison and flex to
> > compile, snapshots and releases contain those bison and flex generated
> > files within their source tarballs.
>
> Only releases - so better call the option something more descriptive than
> --enable-snapshot. (I'd suggest describing what it does, e.g.
> --enable-generated-files-in-srcdir.)
The revised patch (with Joseph's suggested name) is OK.
I hope that you will indeed follow-through to make a read-only srcdir
the default. That would be much nicer. :-)
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Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
CodeSourcery, LLC