whither specs?

[David Edelsohn]

>>>>> Geoff Keating writes:

Geoff> Can you give examples of the sort of things that users might like to
Geoff> change?  I'm thinking that a lot of them are along the lines of
Geoff> "please pass this flag to the linker".

	We just had the case with the GCC 3.1 release that the specs did
not match the version of IBM's Parallel Environment that a user had
installed.  With a text specs file, they were able to edit LINK_SPEC and
STARTFILE_SPEC to match their version of the software.

David