From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Elliston To: Doug Evans Cc: cgen@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Maintainer mode Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 01:48:00 -0000 Message-id: <14777.45927.15830.37734@walkabout.cygnus.com> References: <200009080900.UAA00915@walkabout.cygnus.com> <14777.27737.706634.552352@casey.transmeta.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-q3/msg00086.html Doug Evans writes: > > The advantages here are obvious: you need not remember an extra option > > to `configure' and it works more obviously. > I recognize the reasons why one would want to do this. > I didn't do this because it carries extra burdens I wasn't prepared > to dump on binutils/gdb people. This burden only exists when the modification times of the .cpu files is newer than the generated files. The same burden could be said for people building GCC and requiring Bison because a source distribution has generated C files that are older than the `.y' file. If it is carefully managed, I don't think this will affect anyone. Do you agree? Ben