Proposed minor build-process revamp to simplify cross-configuration

[H . J . Lu]

On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 10:50:09AM -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>  In message < 200005120942.EAA16497@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com >you write:
>   > Now, it is interesting to note that 'gcc -Bpath/' alone does almost
>   > precisely what we want in order to test the tree before we install
>   > into the final location, if and only if, we force all packages being
>   > built with gcc to offer some sort of pre-install of headers (and maybe
>   > libraries) into a tree structure that mirrors the final tree structure
>   > but held within $(obj).  We don't do that today. 
> [ ... ]
> This is not unlike what Joel & others have proposed for newlib since we
> have precisely the same problems there (and some you don't have with
> libstdc++ :-)
> 
> I think that a make target for installing headers into a well known location
> in the build tree which mirrors the structure of the installed tree would
> simplify a number of issues.

I have put my patches for gcc 2.95 at

http://www.lucon.org/gcc/2.95/

They may be needed to do parallel build on SMP machine and cross
compile. BTW, I have to apply some of them to make the Linux/ia64
cross compiler on Linux/ia32. Pick ones you like and ignore others.


H.J.