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Re: incompatible spec files?
- To: Christopher Seawood <cls at seawood dot org>
- Subject: Re: incompatible spec files?
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 11:50:48 -0700
- cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>, egcs at cygnus dot com, egcs-bugs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.980113130230.6602A-100000@panic.can.seawood.org>you write:
> Hrm. I was hoping for a more elegant solution that didn't require
> modifying the pre-existing installation. Shouldn't something like this be
> in the FAQ, btw?
Unfortunately, spec file handling has always been a little goofy.
The format of the spec file isn't documented anywhere, and unfortunately
the format has changed between every significant gcc release that I'm
aware of. Worse yet, subtle things like an extra newline in a specs file
can cause the compiler to crash.
If you've got some sample text, I'll happily add it to the FAQ.
jeff