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Re: [plugins] [patch] Initial implementation of GCC plugin support
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Benjamin Smedberg <benjamin at smedbergs dot us>
- Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile at starynkevitch dot net>, Le-Chun Wu <lcwu at google dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>, Taras Glek <tglek at mozilla dot com>, Grigori Fursin <grigori dot fursin at inria dot fr>, Zbigniew Chamski <zbigniew dot chamski at gmail dot com>, Sean Callanan <spyffe at cs dot sunysb dot edu>, Cupertino Miranda <cupertinomiranda at gmail dot com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:25:34 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: [plugins] [patch] Initial implementation of GCC plugin support
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On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
> Building the plugin requires having the GCC sources, not just the plugin
> sources. GCC sources don't normally come with distros, so you have to go
> through fairly complicated hoops to get the GCC sources which match the
> binaries installed on your system.
All distros I am aware of provide the very GCC sources they use to build
their flavor of GCC, generally in easily accessible a manner. (This is the
most straightforward way for them to honor the requirements of the GPL.)
Gerald