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Re: The etc/ directory in GCC
>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Lipe <robertlipe@usa.net> writes:
Joseph> The GCC source tree includes an etc/ directory...
Mark> Nuke it. We should make a link to the GNU coding standards
Mark> page from
Joseph> Done.
Robert> Note that this will cause a minor problem in existing
Robert> trees. I had to manually remove etc/ from my objdirs to
Robert> get the trees to build again. I don't know if it's worth
Robert> making the build machinery try to handle this case, but it
Robert> has happened a few times this week.
Robert> This is trivial for a human, but just enough of a curve to
Robert> foil a cron job. :-)
Doesn't `cvs update -P' (or whatever) prune emtpy directories?
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