Re: Beginner GCC projects question

[Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>]

Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> writes:

> Remember the "Mega bonus points for working out a way to do automatic
> dependency generation without relying on features of GCC or GNU
> make. And we don't want a make dep pass if it can possibly be
> avoided."  This is feasible, especially since GNU make *is* now
> allowed.  You need good make skills, but not guru-level -- just take a
> look at how Automake does it.  I cannot approve any patch, but if you
> pick this one I'm willing to help.

Note that this project is substantially harder than it looks due to
the large body of auto-generated code.  I have come to the conclusion
that a 'make dep'-style prescan is unavoidable, and I have a fairly
detailed plan for implementing it, but I lack time.  If anyone wants
to help, the first stage is to get cpplib out of the gcc subdirectory
so it can be built twice when build!=host.

(No, you won't have to type "make dep".)

zw