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Re: [wwwdocs committed] Document libada-branch
- From: Rainer Orth <ro at TechFak dot Uni-Bielefeld dot DE>
- To: neroden at twcny dot rr dot com (Nathanael Nerode)
- Cc: charlet at act-europe dot fr, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:37:30 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: [wwwdocs committed] Document libada-branch
- References: <20031023165247.GA29341@twcny.rr.com>
Nathanael Nerode writes:
> >May I suggest the following approach: instead of having a gigantic flat
> >directory with ca. 1500 files with incomprehensibly cryptic names, organize
> >the target-specific files into target subdirs (like libjava/sysdep and
> >libstd++-v3/{config, os}) and use `generic' names for the files there.
>
> Yes, this is a reasonably good idea, assuming there is a logical way to
> divide them up.
I think there is: currently, for each platform (target triplet), platform
specific files are symlinked to generic names, like
system.ads -> 5gsystem.ads for IRIX 6 N32
Storing the files in subdirs with those generic names in the first place
would avoid those symlink games.
Rainer