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From: Romain Geissler <romain.geissler@gmail.com>
To: Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: gengtype installation in trunk?
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:20:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <173B342F-26DE-4AC6-9A07-E6C3886070FF@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110924170916.a9968385eeb17859c8b6f336@starynkevitch.net>

Hi,

I don't understand, you supported my patch when i contributed it, which performs exactly what you want ! Gengtype and gtype.state get installed in the trunk for more than a month !

Romain.


Le 24 sept. 2011 à 17:09, Basile Starynkevitch a écrit :

> Hello All,
> 
> As you probably know, gengtype is useful for plugins, and they also need the gtype.state
> file.
> 
> However, the current GCC trunk still don't seem to install it.
> 
> [several distributions, including Mandriva & Debian, are patching GCC for that purpose]
> 
> And GCC installation procedure and gcc/Makefile.in really give me a headache, and I don't
> understand enough of it to be able to propose an acceptable patch.
> 
> Could any knowledgable person help in that. I'm sure that for people really understanding
> GCC building procedure (which I am not), proposing a patch to install gengtype is even
> simpler than explaining how it should be done.
> 
> 
> I was told that for reasons I don't understand, gengtype would have to be compiled twice
> (once in build and once in "host" mode, whatever that means exactly).
> 
> trunk is coming out of stage 1, and I am afraid that even gcc-4.7 won't have gengtype
> installed.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> PS. I really cannot write a patch for that, I don't understand the makefile & configure
> tricks enough. 
> 
> -- 
> Basile STARYNKEVITCH         http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/
> email: basile<at>starynkevitch<dot>net mobile: +33 6 8501 2359
> 8, rue de la Faiencerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-25 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-24 15:09 Basile Starynkevitch
2011-09-25 12:20 ` Romain Geissler [this message]
2011-09-25 14:16   ` Basile Starynkevitch

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