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Re: PATCH to pre-select languages to be build
- To: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: PATCH to pre-select languages to be build
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 12:25:40 +0200 (MET DST)
- cc: manfred at s-direktnet dot de, Manfred dot Hollstein at ks dot sel dot alcatel dot de, burley at gnu dot org, jbuck at synopsys dot com, egcs at cygnus dot com
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>> My argument concerning new compilers in a new tarball still stands,
>> too. The average test user gets a new egcs-x.y.tar.gz file, untars
>> it, and calls his usual build script/comand, e.g.
> By default we should build all languages. The user must explicitly specify
> that they do not want particular languages. I think we've agreed on that.
The user should definitely be able to explicitely specify the languages
she wants to build as well, not only those that she does not want to
build.
(Else additions like chill and java will cause unwanted behavior from
a user perspective.)
Gerald
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