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Re: Searching configured and relocated prefix.
Andrew Pinski <pinskia@physics.uc.edu> writes:
> On Jul 23, 2006, at 10:44 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>
> > "Me too."
>
> Except now you have suggested that we change the current behavior
> which you already suggested at the GCC summit we should not do at
> least not for a couple of release for warning people. You cannot
> have it both ways, people already depend on this behavior, I am
> one example.
My general point at the gcc summit was not one about changing the
compiler, although that was the context in which I raised it. It was
that we should have more consideration of the needs of our users, and
less consideration of the needs of our developers.
As far as I am concerned, the relevant question on this issue is
whether anybody other than toolchain developers depends on the current
behaviour. I believe the answer is no. Since the current behaviour
has various drawbacks which are clearly evident in organizations which
use NFS widely, and since moreover I believe that most non-gcc-
developers do not exepect the current behaviour, I believe that we
should change it.
Ian