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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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