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Re: GCC headers and DJGPP port
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- Subject: Re: GCC headers and DJGPP port
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 10:10:38 -0600
- cc: Mo McKinlay <mmckinlay at gnu dot org>, martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de, mrs at windriver dot com, djgpp-workers at delorie dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <200007220909.FAA11989@indy.delorie.com>you write:
> GCC already talks to DOS: we have a working port of GCC since 1989,
> when DJ Delorie first ported it. We were tracking the GCC development
> since then, and I don't think we missed any version (with the
> exception of the EGCS vs GCC schism period, when we mostly used GCC
> 2.8.1). So GCC port is not something that is being born now.
>
> What is different about the next release is that we would like GCC to
> be built for DJGPP out of the box, with all the necessary quirks
> integrated into the official GCC distribution. Until now, building
> GCC for DJGPP required a few custom changes and special scripts that
> were not distributed with GCC. For example, the headers that GCC
> installs when you say "make install" were ignored--this is the issue
> we are trying to figure out in this thread.
I would love to see this happen too, but I'm not going to agree to install
changes which are fundamentally wrong, such as overriding USER_H. We also
have to be practical and realize that DOS is a severely braindamaged system
and we shouldn't compromise our ability to DTRT on other platforms just to
make DOS happy.
jeff