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Re: Succeeded with Alpha+19980803, some feedback
- To: Todd Vierling <tv at pobox dot com>
- Subject: Re: Succeeded with Alpha+19980803, some feedback
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 13:53:27 -0600
- cc: "Reid M. Pinchback" <reidmp at mit dot edu>, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <Pine.NEB.4.02.9808261544430.25466-100000@duhnet.net>you write:
> On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
> : It won't put anything in there for a native configuration. That
> : directory may get populated in some cross compilation environments
> : by other tools (I'm not 100% sure).
>
> Cross tools use $(prefix).
>
> : Actually I don't think trying to create the directory is necessarily
> : bogus. And I think we both agree that nothing bad happens.
>
> It's bogus to create a directory that was never configured, especially if
> --without-local-prefix is given. Egcs really shouldn't *create* the
> directory at all based on $(local_prefix), it should just use
> /usr/local/include (and silently fail if it isn't there, which it already
> does), unless --without-local-prefix is given.
But the directory won't be created. It's try, and fail. No big deal.
What is the problem?
jeff