Beginner GCC projects question

[Zack Weinberg]

Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@polimi.it> writes:

>> See, the solution to the crossbuild problem (and to the "non-GCC
>> bootstrap compiler" problem) is to build cpplib for the build machine,
>> and wrap a custom tool around it.  That part is easy.  But once
>> you've done that, why not make the custom tool a little cleverer so
>> that it can generate _all_ the dependencies?  I don't think it's
>> hard.
>
> You already have such a tool.  It's mostly cpp | awk.

We can't count on the bootstrap cpp doing anything useful in this
regard, remember.  The "custom tool" could just be a very simple
commandline wrapper around cpplib, but once I have to write *some*
code in C I would much rather do the entire job in C than deal with
awk.

zw