gengtype plugin improvement last4round -patch 7 [install]

[Basile Starynkevitch]

On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 02:33:56 +0000 (UTC)
"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:18:09 +0000 (UTC)
> > "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> > > If you wish to install gengtype, you must build it twice, for both the 
> > > build and host systems, use the build-system copy as part of the build 
> > > process but install the host-system copy.  This is just like what is done 
> > > with fixincludes: the build-system copy is used in the build process but 
> > > the host-system copy is installed for potential later use in regenerating 
> > > fixed headers after changes in system headers.
> > 
> > Are you suggesting to install gengtype under  $(libexecsubdir)/install-tools 
> > as in fixincludes/Makefile.in?
> 
> plugin-tools would be a better name than install-tools.


I am not able to propose a patch which install gengtype (& gtype.state)
appropriately. I just opened PR 46828 to get some help.

Sorry ladies & gentlemen, I am not able to work out that alone (and I
still guess that for people understanding GCC build machinery, it is a
very small patch).

Cheers.

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