Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 22:53:51 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com> Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <XFMail.011025225351.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20011025190116.C4609@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On 26-Oct-01 David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 02:19:32PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
>> In fact, since Lyndon is just asking for a switch to do it (and not
>> one that will be on by default) there should be no harm in adding such a
>> switch.
>
> Other than a messier Makefile for what I see as a very rare corner case.
Messy?
Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -r1.24 Makefile
--- Makefile 27 Mar 2001 14:58:37 -0000 1.24
+++ Makefile 26 Oct 2001 05:46:19 -0000
@@ -9,7 +9,10 @@
SRCS= gcc.c gccspec.c
NOSHARED?=yes
-LINKS= ${BINDIR}/cc ${BINDIR}/gcc
+LINKS= ${BINDIR}/cc
+.ifdef(GCC_NAMES)
+LINKS+= ${BINDIR}/gcc
+.endif
MLINKS= gcc.1 cc.1 gcc.1 c++.1 gcc.1 g++.1 gcc.1 CC.1
CFLAGS+= -DDEFAULT_TARGET_VERSION=\"$(version)\"
Doesn't look but so bad to me.
They aren't in vendor code, so it's not like they have to be redone constantly
for upgrades. It's just simple changes to the bmake Makefiles. I'll come up
with the diff if you want. Granted, this doesn't fix the manpages which might
be slightly harder. (Manpage would need to be installed as cc.1, and then you
conditionalize the MLINKS line similary for the g*.1 links. Not too terribly
difficult, but slightly more complicated than the above.)
>> Remember, we aren't supposed to set policy here. :) The base system
>> should not depend on the 'gcc' name, so having an _option_ to not use
>> the g* names shouldn't be something to get upset about.
>
> We aren't setting policy. Like it or not, our system compiler is `gcc'.
> Also like it or not `gcc' is the most prolific compiler in all of history.
Err. Read those two sentences back to back. "We aren't setting policy. Like
it or not..." Sounds like setting policy and users be damned to me. It seems
more like you just don't like the idea since you wouldn't use it and thus have
decided to take it as a personal issue. It's just hardlinks to a few binaries
here, not the end of the world.
> --
> -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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