Date:	Sat, 6 Jun 1998 11:45:37 +0200 (WET)
From:	Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
cc:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Possible update of gcc-2.8.1 archives
In-Reply-To:	<199806060153.VAA08218@delorie.com>
Message-ID:	<Pine.A32.3.91.980606113033.46874A-100000@ieva01.lanet.lv>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, DJ Delorie wrote:

> 
> Another thing to consider - some programs expect cpp to be in the path
> (like RSX's grc).  Putting it in a gcc-specific directory breaks those
> things.
>

I haven't tried RSX. But I think there's no problem to copy (or move) cpp 
from %DJDIR%/lib/gcc-lib/djgpp/2.81/ to %DJDIR%/bin (it should work without
any problems as gcc searches path for executables if looking in previous 
directories fails). But I don't like an idea to move it there in distribution
archives. We'll not be able to keep multitiple versions of gcc (e.g
2.8.1 and next version of pgcc when DJGPP port will be released) at least
without additional copying of files.  


One thing I forgot to mention in yesterdays message was that I also
added in gcc definition to search for binaries also %DJDIR%/bin before
trying current directory and DOS path. So user may have some different 
AS.EXE or LD.EXE in path or in currect directory and it will not be used 
except one not very usual situation (see gcc.info about MD_EXEC_PREFIX).
However I don't recommend doing this, of course.


Andris

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