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Re: small Fortran bug


> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 07:59:43 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Craig Burley <burley@gnu.org>
> To: mrs@wrs.com

> Seems to me the ideal solution (for not just g77, but any language
> in a subdir that makes a similar kind of link to egcs/gcc/gcc.c) is
> one of the following:

>   1.  Change the link to be to an absolute pathname, so the link
>       works regardless of whether it is in the language subdir `x'
>       or stageN/`x' or wherever.

> I prefer #1.  Opinions?

Generally we try and avoid absolute pathnames.  The C++ frontend works
by not having the .c in STAGESTUFF.  If you remove it from there, it
should work also.  Yes, I know that the link would then never be
freshened without a cleaning, but that's not really important I feel.


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