From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu, gcc2@cygnus.com, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Proposal for new organization of gcc
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 14:54:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <or67ne7vbu.fsf@amazonas.dcc.unicamp.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199801201934.MAA01735@wijiji.santafe.edu>
Richard Stallman writes:
>> In a perfect gcs, I'd be able to
>> download the gcs backend and the language front-end, build them with
>> the installed C compiler and install that, and I'm done.
>> I think that already works now.
> I couldn't make it happen, but I can't say I've tried too hard. All I
> have to say is that it is not as easy as simply removing the back-end
> and the C front-end directory from the source tree,
> I would have tried something simpler--just running Make with arguments
> that tell it not to build cc1. If that doesn't work, can you try to
> find out why not? It might be an easily corrected problem.
This won't work. gcc needs cc1 in order to build libgcc.a, and a C++
compiler, for instance, must add some symbols to libgcc.a, so libgcc.a
must be built. This clearly shows my point: the front-ends are not as
separate from the back-end as they should.
--
Alexandre Oliva
mailto:oliva@dcc.unicamp.br mailto:aoliva@acm.org
http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-01-20 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <9801082336.AA26988@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
1998-01-08 16:24 ` Alexandre Oliva
1998-01-08 18:28 ` Michael Gschwind
1998-01-11 18:24 ` Richard Stallman
1998-01-11 18:58 ` Alexandre Oliva
1998-01-12 17:55 ` Richard Stallman
1998-01-13 4:31 ` Alexandre Oliva
1998-01-20 12:42 ` Richard Stallman
1998-01-20 14:54 ` Alexandre Oliva [this message]
1998-01-21 9:18 ` Richard Stallman
1998-01-22 1:45 ` Richard Earnshaw
1998-01-22 2:29 ` Alexandre Oliva
1998-01-22 4:12 ` Richard Earnshaw
1998-01-22 2:29 ` Alexandre Oliva
1998-01-23 14:48 ` Harvey J. Stein
1998-01-23 14:48 ` amylaar
[not found] <9801121156.AA07482@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
1998-01-12 4:09 ` Alexandre Oliva
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