Succeeded with Alpha+19980803, some feedback

Jeffrey A Law law@cygnus.com
Wed Aug 26 18:28:00 GMT 1998


  In message < Pine.NEB.4.02.9808261544430.25466-100000@duhnet.net >you write:
  > On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
  > 
  > : It won't put anything in there for a native configuration.  That
  > : directory may get populated in some cross compilation environments
  > : by other tools (I'm not 100% sure).
  > 
  > Cross tools use $(prefix).
  > 
  > : Actually I don't think trying to create the directory is necessarily
  > : bogus.  And I think we both agree that nothing bad happens.
  > 
  > It's bogus to create a directory that was never configured, especially if
  > --without-local-prefix is given.  Egcs really shouldn't *create* the
  > directory at all based on $(local_prefix), it should just use
  > /usr/local/include (and silently fail if it isn't there, which it already
  > does), unless --without-local-prefix is given.
But the directory won't be created.  It's try, and fail.  No big deal.

What is the problem?

jeff



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