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Re: Proposal: Require that GAS be built before GCC in a unified tree
- From: Michael S. Zick <mszick at goquest dot com>
- To: Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com>,gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 07:36:17 -0600
- Subject: Re: Proposal: Require that GAS be built before GCC in a unified tree
- References: <20030301050932.GA4263@doctormoo>
- Reply-to: mszick at goquest dot com
On Friday 28 February 2003 11:09 pm, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> The point of this proposal is that GCC's configure.in has a ludicrous
> number of tests for assembler features which split into two: one if
> there's an actual assembler to test, one if it hasn't been built yet
> (which does hairy version-number examination).
>
> If we required that GAS build before GCC in a unified tree, we could
> eliminate that half of the code, and just use the standard tests on the
> newly built gas. It would be a great savings in clarity.
>
> What do people think?
>
SUPER!
That gets the new gcc being built Gas'd with the new GAS, saving
a "build it twice" scheme:
(new gcc/objects by old binutils
(new gcc/objcts by new binutils
{Better yet, build binutils with the stage1 xgcc into x...binutils.
Then discard the x...binutils if the stage1 xgcc is later found
to be bad. But that sounds hairy to me.}
Mike