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Re: Notice of compiling egcs-1.0.1
- To: Craig Burley <burley at gnu dot org>
- Subject: Re: Notice of compiling egcs-1.0.1
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 00:27:06 -0600
- cc: root at scitech dot co dot uk, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199805061429.KAA22340@melange.gnu.org>you write:
> Huh, well, just so you know, I couldn't find this *anywhere* in the
> INSTALL subdirectory for egcs-19980425. Searching for strings
> like "setenv", "environment", "path", and "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" turned
> up nothing that I would see as telling me how I'd screwed up my
> environment, were I to run into this problem.
Thanks. I really thought that one was in the FAQ distributed with
egcs-1.0.{1,2}. Apparently not.
The good news is I just tweaked the release script so that it
gets copies of the most recent faq & install instructions to
prevent this from happening again.
> Please remember: *users* with losing *environments* are often not
> the same people who set up those environments in the first place!
Often true.
> (Not sure what is meant by "losing environments in the makefiles",
> since I thought things like LD_LIBRARY_PATH were part of the shell,
> or process, environment.)
Right, but environments are inherited by children.
ie, if I have GCC_EXEC_PREFIX in my environment, then I invoke make,
it gets passed down to the children of make.
jeff