Patch for relocatable GCC package on mingw32
Danny Smith
danny_r_smith_2001@yahoo.co.nz
Wed Oct 10 12:31:00 GMT 2001
--- Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at
06:34:52PM +1000, Danny Smith wrote:
> >Hello
> >
> >GCC for mingw needs to build a relocatable package (ie search paths
> >relative to gcc driver). Currently the information needed to do that
> >is overriden by undefines in i386/cygwin.h,which is included by
> >i386/mingw32.h. Appended patch protects aginst these undefines.
> >
> >It also changes a few additional macros to be consistent with current
> >mingw usage and reformats a comment that keeps wrapping lines.
> >
> >Please apply to branch and trunk.
>
> Hmm. I'm sorry, Danny, but now that I've had a second chance to see this
> patch, I have a minor nit that didn't occur to me at first.
>
> I'm sorry to say that I don't like the name
> WIN32_BUILD_RELOCATABLE_PACKAGE as a name. The word "RELOCATABLE" is
> ambiguous in this case since it usually refers to object code not
> file location.
>
> Can I suggest something like WIN32_NO_ABSOLUTE_INST_DIRS maybe?
>
> If you agree to this name, I'll apply the patch with this change.
>
Name change yours no problem is.
Will you also please change the changelog to thank yourself for suggesting
name :)
Danny
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