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Re: Beginner GCC projects question
Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@polimi.it> writes:
>> See, the solution to the crossbuild problem (and to the "non-GCC
>> bootstrap compiler" problem) is to build cpplib for the build machine,
>> and wrap a custom tool around it. That part is easy. But once
>> you've done that, why not make the custom tool a little cleverer so
>> that it can generate _all_ the dependencies? I don't think it's
>> hard.
>
> You already have such a tool. It's mostly cpp | awk.
We can't count on the bootstrap cpp doing anything useful in this
regard, remember. The "custom tool" could just be a very simple
commandline wrapper around cpplib, but once I have to write *some*
code in C I would much rather do the entire job in C than deal with
awk.
zw