Re: gcc-2.95 RPM specfile for the contrib dir

[Horst von Brand <vonbrand at inf dot utfsm dot cl>]

Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com> said:
> now that the directory structure and version numbers in gcc-2.95 are fixed 
> and having used it a few times now with this setup, I would like to ask if 
> this can go into the contrib dir of gcc-2.95?
> 
> Currently the spec is heavily linux-centric and matches the RH6.0 
> egcs-1.1.2 setup closely.

Thanks! I've been wanting to write something like this for some time,
but...

OK, just some random comments:

The gcc package name sounds wrong... the current ambiguity between the gcc
C compiler and the GCC GNU Compiler Collection has to be resolved. Perhaps
by capitalization? Then call the packages GCC-<language>, i.e., GCC-C,
GCC-C++, GCC-Java, GCC-F77, GCC-chill, GCC-Ada, GCC-Pascal; and perhaps
GCC-C++-runtime et al? (It is not *-devel, AFAIU)

The Java stuff doesn't work without the Java library, you'd have to add
that (as a separate source).

I don't think it is wise to require the latest beta of binutils.

Why not "chill support from the GNU compiler collection", for instance? Or
                       ^^^^
even "chill compiler from..."?

Writing into the SRCDIR might not be possible, better keep the log in the
OBJDIR? 

If the above sounds like criticism, well, it is. I just hope to help you
making the spec file a bit better.

Again, many thanks!
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