From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3512 invoked by alias); 13 Jun 2003 14:02:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 3493 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2003 14:02:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com) (66.187.233.200) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Jun 2003 14:02:24 -0000 Received: from free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (aoliva.cipe.redhat.com [10.0.1.10]) by lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h5DE2GK31861; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:02:17 -0400 Received: from free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br [127.0.0.1]) by free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h5DE2GMb014739; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:02:16 -0300 Received: (from aoliva@localhost) by free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h5DE2Dor014735; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:02:13 -0300 To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Bernd Jendrissek , Nathanael Nerode , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Partial autoconf transition thoughts References: From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:02:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-06/txt/msg00246.txt.bz2 On Jun 13, 2003, "Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote: > OK, then what about the following example: on an i386-linux system I have > three shared binaries of libbfd, one is for i386-linux host and i386-linux > target, another one is for i386-linux host and mipsel-linux target and the > last one is for mipsel-linux host and mipsel-linux target. $(exec_prefix)/$(target_alias) should place them in different directories. > Anyway see 'http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-05/msg00184.html' > and its follow ups for the origin of the choice -- as you took part in the > discussion, I'm actually surprised you are not aware of the current setup. /me claims faulty memory, in self defense :-) /me notes that the original thread subject was bfd.h, and $(includedir) is part of $(prefix), not $(exec_prefix) like $(libdir). Anyway, after re-reading the thread, I remember why we chose to do it the way we did it. It does make sense, even thought I still find it not ideal. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist Professional serial bug killer