x86-win32 registry lookup patch
Richard Kenner
kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu
Thu Aug 5 04:07:00 GMT 1999
The current code in prefix.c looks up GCC installation paths in the
windows registry; If the keys exist in the registry howerver, it has
the effect of screwing up other possibly incompatible versions of GCC
on the same system by essentially defining a nicely hidden value for
GCC_EXEC_PREFIX.
The point is that you are now supposed to use GCC_ROOT. The reason
for this method over the old one is that you can now relocate both
native and cross-compilers. I think disabling this option is a very
bad idea. We should instead encourage its use.
Moreover, the above isn't quite correct: all this does is change the *default*
prefix used: GCC_EXEC_PREFIX continues to override that part of the default.
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