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Re: Shell wrappers and GCC - FYA
- To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>
- Subject: Re: Shell wrappers and GCC - FYA
- From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 19:45:44 +0100
- Cc: Bruce Korb <bkorb at veritas dot com>, Bruce Korb <bkorb at pacbell dot net>,gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Zack Weinberg wrote:-
> There are thre problems I see. One is, it's not clear how to handle
> language-specific drivers, unless you want to have libgccdriver.so,
> libg++driver.so, etc. etc. which strikes me as horrid. Another is
It sounds like we could merge the 3 drivers here - and still have 3
separate binaries for GNU standards compliance.
> making the library play nice with make when both of them want to be in
> charge of calling wait(2). And the final problem is how does make
> tell when it's supposed to try the magic -print-dynamic-driver switch?
> (Obviously it does that only once per make invocation, or what's the
> point?)
You missed another that would become important - clean up the many
memory leaks in the driver. I hope that would be part of the rewrite
anyway.