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From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
To: Bill Cox <waywardgeek@gmail.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dumb idea for accelerating FOSS development
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTik=790ZOsjpe5s1yMPL6xWH=g9uxoUP8jGm9EKe@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinPfC2KtsCXk7V7HHrEwiYyudrkwPM99p13hLDN@mail.gmail.com>

On 12 January 2011 14:07, Bill Cox wrote:
>
> Well, after a short nap, the thought of fixing this in gcc seems even
> dumber to me, though the problem is quite real.  Another tool called
> before gcc could get the header and library files into a place where
> they could be used.  It could even be compiler independent.

  gcc myprog.c $(magic-lib-installer $publicrepo)

where magic-lib-installer takes care of any fetching, building and
installing of the lib in $tmp, then printing the necessary
-I$tmp/include, -L$tmp/lib and -lblah options for use by gcc.

However it  works, it shouldn't need changes to gcc.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-12 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-12 11:07 Bill Cox
2011-01-12 12:44 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2011-01-12 13:43   ` Axel Freyn
2011-01-12 14:07     ` Bill Cox
2011-01-12 15:00       ` Jonathan Wakely [this message]
2011-01-12 13:32 ` Robert Millan
2011-01-12 14:21 ` David Brown
2011-01-12 16:19 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2011-01-12 21:13   ` Florian Weimer

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