From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11402 invoked by alias); 12 Jan 2011 15:00:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 11381 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Jan 2011 15:00:18 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RFC_ABUSE_POST X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-ww0-f51.google.com (HELO mail-ww0-f51.google.com) (74.125.82.51) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:00:11 +0000 Received: by wwe15 with SMTP id 15so626197wwe.8 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:00:09 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.184.66 with SMTP id r44mr4192247wem.51.1294844409231; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:00:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.160.131 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:00:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20110112124351.GC13845@ours.starynkevitch.net> <20110112134317.GS9055@axel> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:00:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Dumb idea for accelerating FOSS development From: Jonathan Wakely To: Bill Cox Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2011-01/txt/msg00148.txt.bz2 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. =A0Another tool called > before gcc could get the header and library files into a place where > they could be used. =A0It 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.