From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexandre Oliva To: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) Cc: gcc2@cygnus.com, egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: Proposal for new organization of gcc Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 04:09:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <9801121156.AA07482@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> X-SW-Source: 1998-01/msg00303.html Richard Kenner writes: > Having the C front-end in the base tar file is ok for me, but I don't > like to be required to build it just because I want to install the > front-end for one more language. > "one *more*"? Let me be clearer. Suppose I had installed gcc-2.7.2.3 and g77-0.5.19 with a few local patches some weeks ago. Then I removed the sources and the build tree. Now I'd like to upgrade to g77-0.5.20. In a good world, I wouldn't have to bootstrap gcc again just to be able to build g77, I could simply tell g77: hey, use that gcc installed in /usr/local/bin, it will do. In a perfect world, GCS would have already installed a library and some include-files that would allow g77 to build *without* a top-level GCS directory. -- Alexandre Oliva mailto:oliva@dcc.unicamp.br mailto:aoliva@acm.org http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil