This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: autoconfiscating top level directory -- info wanted
>>>>> "Phil" == Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com> writes:
>> (The current script assumes a huge list of tools including emacs
>> 18, emacs 19, apache (!?!), and so I hope they aren't all still
>> configured by this script!)
Phil> I honestly don't know about some of that stuff. Obviously
Phil> they're not part of the toolchain[*], but I can see where the
Phil> original authors might have said to themselves, "hey, let's
Phil> write a super-generic build script that can configure arbitrary
Phil> programs," or some such.
The top-level configure.in code was written inside Cygnus in the
distant past. The code in the gcc and src trees still has pieces of
this legacy. For instance, I added the apache build rules in early
1996 to support a project we were working on at the time. The Emacs
stuff even predates that.
Tom