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Re: srcdir builds
- From: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 08:34:46 -0700
- Subject: Re: srcdir builds
- Organization: Red Hat / San Francisco
- Reply-to: bkoz at redhat dot com
This is a bummer.
Would it be possible to come up with a long-term design plan WRT the
configure/make parts of gcc, including the target libraries?
In particular, staging the build libraries and includes in a way that
mimics the directory layouts of the final install seems to be an idea
that is repeatedly mentioned as advisable, yet is never implemented. I
would like to see this, as I think it would greatly simplify testing
hooks and would also bring sanity to cross compilation parts of make and
configure.
I think people might get up the nerve to actually implement this if they
knew that the work wasn't going to get thrown out or spend weeks/months
rotting while people argued over the design of the patch.
Thoughts?
-benjamin