Proposal for new organization of gcc

[Alexandre Oliva]

Richard Stallman writes:

>       In a perfect gcs, I'd be able to
>     download the gcs backend and the language front-end, build them with
>     the installed C compiler and install that, and I'm done.

> I think that already works now.

I couldn't make it happen, but I can't say I've tried too hard.  All I
have to say is that it is not as easy as simply removing the back-end
and the C front-end directory from the source tree, or by issuing
configure flags such as --disable-back-end --disable-language-c

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Alexandre Oliva
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