packaging GCC plugins using gengtype (e.g. MELT)?

[Basile Starynkevitch <basile at starynkevitch dot net>]

Basile Starynkevitch wrote in 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-gcc/2010/03/msg00047.html

> Now, one of the issues about MELT & Debian packaging is the fact that 
> melt-runtime.c (the source of melt.so plugin) uses GTY 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Type-Information.html#Type-Information 
> & register GGC roots thru PLUGIN_REGISTER_GGC_ROOTS ... Hence, it needs 
> gengtype (from GCC 4.5 build tree) to generate gt-melt-runtime.h 
> [#include-ed from melt-runtime.c] so the entire GCC 4.5 source & build 
> trees are needed to build melt.so (or any other gengtyp-ing GCC plugin). 


See also http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-03/msg00120.html & 
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-03/msg00129.html

I did wrote a script to build the GCC MELT plugin, and I even made a 
tarball snapshot of it -but it is much preferable to retrieve it thru 
subversion from the GCC MELT branch-

I also updated the instructions to build GCC MELT as a plugin on 
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/MELT%20tutorial which contains a link to the 
snapshot tarball. I will probably update that link when useful.

Regards.

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