Now GCC is really hosed...

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Richard Henderson wrote:
> No, I think generated files should only be built for snapshots
> and releases.  It's not unreasonable, IMO that building CVS
> sources requires bison and gperf and autofoo and whatnot installed.

Ah, here is the point where I have to jump in: yacc and bison are rather
common, so it's not that bad if we require them, but auto* etc. certainly
are not that common.

Removing files generated by such tools from CVS will strictly reduce the
ability of folks like Kaveh or myself to continually test GCC on not-so-
common platforms (as we are often using guest accounts with limited disk
space to do so, for example).

In addition, we have been recommending that folks use CVS sources instead
of FTP snapshots; completely removing generated files from CVS would work
in the opposite direction.

Gerald
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