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Subject: Re: Proposal for new organization of gcc
From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva () dcc ! unicamp ! br>
Date: 1998-01-20 20:18:45
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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
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