From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Buck To: wilson@cygnus.com (Jim Wilson) Cc: law@cygnus.com, egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: testing consistency Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 18:39:00 -0000 Message-id: <199709120139.SAA14880@atrus.synopsys.com> References: <199709112358.QAA07425@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1997-09/msg00475.html > My initial concern here is that there were mistakes in the arguments. > People were claiming that H.J.'s patch was changing behaviour, when in > fact it was restoring behaviour that was lost when we added the toplevel > directory. If we choose not to accept H.J.'s patch, then we are deciding > to change how gcc operates. Even if gcc is "right", perhaps egcs and gcc should not have the same behavior in this case. The official compiler going in /usr is one thing, the experimental egcs compiler going in /usr is quite another. > Incidentally, if we don't accept H.J.'s patch, then we need to fix the > gcc/configure.in file to avoid conflicts over the default value of prefix. Just use /usr/local everywhere. Conflict gone. (but I think gcc should work that way too).