* -norecursion
@ 1999-05-21 6:01 Christopher R. Jones
1999-05-21 7:09 ` -norecursion Gerald Pfeifer
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From: Christopher R. Jones @ 1999-05-21 6:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: egcs
The configure script used -norecursion when building egcs-1.1.2 on my
Pentium Pro, Solaris 7. Does this mean that I cannot create programs that
use recursion?
Christopher R. Jones, P.Eng.
14 Oneida Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M5J 2E3
Tel. 416 203-7465
Fax. 416 203-3044
Email cj@interlog.com
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* Re: -norecursion
1999-05-21 6:01 -norecursion Christopher R. Jones
@ 1999-05-21 7:09 ` Gerald Pfeifer
1999-05-31 21:36 ` -norecursion Gerald Pfeifer
1999-05-21 9:10 ` -norecursion Joe Buck
1999-05-31 21:36 ` -norecursion Christopher R. Jones
2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Gerald Pfeifer @ 1999-05-21 7:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christopher R. Jones; +Cc: egcs
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Christopher R. Jones wrote:
> The configure script used -norecursion when building egcs-1.1.2 on my
> Pentium Pro, Solaris 7. Does this mean that I cannot create programs that
> use recursion?
No, definitely not.
(You mean C/C++ programs without recursion, right?)
Gerald
--
Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/
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* Re: -norecursion
1999-05-21 6:01 -norecursion Christopher R. Jones
1999-05-21 7:09 ` -norecursion Gerald Pfeifer
@ 1999-05-21 9:10 ` Joe Buck
1999-05-31 21:36 ` -norecursion Joe Buck
1999-05-31 21:36 ` -norecursion Christopher R. Jones
2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Joe Buck @ 1999-05-21 9:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christopher R. Jones; +Cc: egcs
> The configure script used -norecursion when building egcs-1.1.2 on my
> Pentium Pro, Solaris 7. Does this mean that I cannot create programs that
> use recursion?
Wow, a question no one has ever asked before! In this case, recursion
refers to configure running itself in every subdirectory.
By default, if you run configure in a directory, it also tries to run
configure in all subdirectories that have configure scripts. The
-norecursion flag turns off this behavior. The config.status file
that gets left behind is a script that will be run by the Makefile
under certain circumstances (if there is a Makefile.in or a configure.in
that is newer than the Makefile), but we wouldn't want this re-running
to go off and change other directories; that's why the -norecursion
flag is present.
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* Re: -norecursion
1999-05-21 7:09 ` -norecursion Gerald Pfeifer
@ 1999-05-31 21:36 ` Gerald Pfeifer
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Gerald Pfeifer @ 1999-05-31 21:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christopher R. Jones; +Cc: egcs
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Christopher R. Jones wrote:
> The configure script used -norecursion when building egcs-1.1.2 on my
> Pentium Pro, Solaris 7. Does this mean that I cannot create programs that
> use recursion?
No, definitely not.
(You mean C/C++ programs without recursion, right?)
Gerald
--
Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/
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* -norecursion
1999-05-21 6:01 -norecursion Christopher R. Jones
1999-05-21 7:09 ` -norecursion Gerald Pfeifer
1999-05-21 9:10 ` -norecursion Joe Buck
@ 1999-05-31 21:36 ` Christopher R. Jones
2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Christopher R. Jones @ 1999-05-31 21:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: egcs
The configure script used -norecursion when building egcs-1.1.2 on my
Pentium Pro, Solaris 7. Does this mean that I cannot create programs that
use recursion?
Christopher R. Jones, P.Eng.
14 Oneida Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M5J 2E3
Tel. 416 203-7465
Fax. 416 203-3044
Email cj@interlog.com
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: -norecursion
1999-05-21 9:10 ` -norecursion Joe Buck
@ 1999-05-31 21:36 ` Joe Buck
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Joe Buck @ 1999-05-31 21:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christopher R. Jones; +Cc: egcs
> The configure script used -norecursion when building egcs-1.1.2 on my
> Pentium Pro, Solaris 7. Does this mean that I cannot create programs that
> use recursion?
Wow, a question no one has ever asked before! In this case, recursion
refers to configure running itself in every subdirectory.
By default, if you run configure in a directory, it also tries to run
configure in all subdirectories that have configure scripts. The
-norecursion flag turns off this behavior. The config.status file
that gets left behind is a script that will be run by the Makefile
under certain circumstances (if there is a Makefile.in or a configure.in
that is newer than the Makefile), but we wouldn't want this re-running
to go off and change other directories; that's why the -norecursion
flag is present.
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