initial patch to install libiberty headers

Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
Mon Jan 8 14:29:00 GMT 2001


On Jan  8, 2001, DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> wrote:

> I thought --enable/--disable was for whether or not a package was
> *used* in the build, so --disable-libiberty would try to build gcc
> without libiberty (of course, since that isn't supported it wouldn't
> actually do that).

That's right.  --enable/--disable has to do with enabling or disabling
features in the package that's going to be installed.  However, since
it doesn't make sense to build GCC, for example, without libiberty, we
might as well take it as meaning that we'll just disable it's
installation.

> We could get by with --enable-install-libiberty if we want to stick
> with constructs autoconf already understands.

Sounds reasonable to me.

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