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Re: __i386__ and cpp
- To: Christopher Seawood <cls at seawood dot org>
- Subject: Re: __i386__ and cpp
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 22:22:13 -0700
- cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.980303094106.14597B-100000@panic.can.seawood.org>yoite:
> Is this script really needed? Are there any other cases of programs
> checking for i386 via cpp? If imake is the only one, why go thru the
> trouble of the script for one specific case?
Well, in my past experience a few programs want to do dorky things
like "/lib/cpp blah blah blah". imake is the most popular, but I
don't think it's the only program that might depend on this behavior.
Also, this (bogus) imake behavior is entrenched on many of the
systems where we want egcs to "just dropin and work". If we can't
build X without user hackery, then IMHO, we've failed to provide
a drop in replacement.
jeff