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Re: A patch for Makefile.in
- To: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>
- Subject: Re: A patch for Makefile.in
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 09:48:48 -0600
- cc: Andi Kleen <ak at muc dot de>, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <4.1.0.31.19980728125801.00b94130@mail.lauterbach.com>you write:
> Just a dumb users question, why not let gcc act as gcc -E if called as cpp
> (via symlink or copied binary on symlink-less platforms)? This looks so
> obvious to me ;-)
This violates GNU coding standards which say that no program should
change its behavior based its the name.
Plus it would still mean the Linux folks would have to have the gcc/egcs
package installed for their window managers to work.
jeff