Re: gengtype & plugins [#define emitted in wrong order]

[Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile at starynkevitch dot net>]

Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
>
> > BTW, I tend to believe that gengtype might be installed somewhere (perhaps as
> > gcc-gengtype), and we could also want to put the version string of GCC inside
> > gengtype binary (or perhaps is it already there?). We might also want to have
> > gengtype accepting more a GNU way for program arguments (probably at least
> > have gengtype accepting --version & --help).
>
> gengtype is presently built only for the build system.  If you want to 
> install it you'll need to build it for the host and install that (and, 
> yes, support --help and --version with the usual adaptation to the 
> --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion options).


I have absolutely no idea how to implement all that -and today it is not 
my topmost priority! What would be the code model to follow?

More generally, future linux distributions should probably have a 
gcc-dev package for developping GCC plugins & extensions, much like they 
have a firefox-dev or a gedit-dev for developping plugins for firefox or 
gedit. Perhaps the GCC community should help on such gcc-dev package (or 
 maybe not?). We might want to facilitate GCC plugins development.

Regards.


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