The preprocessor and lack of support for -V

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Feb 16, 2001, Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> wrote:

> "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> writes:
>> I documented in invoke.texi that -V 2.95.2 won't work with GCC 3.0.  I'd
>> be happy to see -V and -b go, provided that links by names such as gcc-3.0
>> to the driver program get installed by make install so there's a
>> functional way of calling older compiler versions.  (See the installation
>> projects list.)

> A relatively conservative suggestion:

> Install the binaries (gcc, g++, gcj, etc) into $(libsubdir),
> and create links from $(bindir).

This would break the mechanism used to locate gcc-lib, because it
use a relative pathname from bin.

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