Re: packaging GCC plugins using gengtype (e.g. MELT)?

[Duncan Sands <baldrick at free dot fr>]

On 14/03/10 21:48, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 14.03.2010 13:15, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
> > Basile Starynkevitch wrote in
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-gcc/2010/03/msg00047.html
> >
> > > Now, one of the issues about MELT & Debian packaging is the fact that
> > > melt-runtime.c (the source of melt.so plugin) uses GTY
> > > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Type-Information.html#Type-Information
> > >
> > > & register GGC roots thru PLUGIN_REGISTER_GGC_ROOTS ... Hence, it
> > > needs gengtype (from GCC 4.5 build tree) to generate gt-melt-runtime.h
> > > [#include-ed from melt-runtime.c] so the entire GCC 4.5 source & build
> > > trees are needed to build melt.so (or any other gengtyp-ing GCC plugin).
>
> there was another request to add the gengtype binary to the package,
> required by the dragonegg plugin. details at:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=562882#13

I don't think dragonegg needs this.  The generated header seems to be
perfectly generic, so I've simply bundled it in with the plugin source.

Ciao,

Duncan.