Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 02:29:22 +0100 (MET)
From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
cc: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: alpha-971114: Makefiles revisited
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On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, DJ Delorie wrote:

> > Given enough interest (i.e.: a good chance that it'll make it into the
> > distributed version), I might re-implement that trick for the current
> > setup. DJ?
> 
> As long as everything gets built with the as-yet-uninstalled libc and
> not the previously-installed libc.

(Except for the $(HOSTBIN) ones, that is, right?)

Should be doable, yes. In fact, it could be as simple as redefining the
variables $(LIB), $(BIN) and so on in makefile.inc, and tailor some other
ends.

BTW: there are some more diffs to come, anyway. I'm still collecting, but
for a start:

  * libemu.a and emu387.dxe weren't built by 'make'. (fixed)
  
  * bin2h is in the sources, but doesn't seem to be in djdev, why?
    (gxx.exe isn't in djdev, either, but I guess that's because it
    is to be included in gpp*b.zip, right?)

  * A .txh bug noticed in passing: 'remque.txh' has 'putenv' as the
    function name in the syntax section  (fixed)

  * The current lsr dist contains some non-source files, and at least 
    one temporary file (djasm-n.c, built from djasm.y). 

  * I tried to use 'gcc -print-libgcc-file-name' to auto-set
    '$(MY_LIBGCC_A)' for native builds. But gcc prints something like
    'c:/djgpp/lib\libgpp.a' (note the '\'). The backslash in
    this string gets eaten up when I write the makefile line like this:

    MY_LIBGCC_A = $(shell $(CROSS_GCC) -print-libgcc-file-name)
 
    Any ideas how to get around that?

  * Currently, 'libc2.tex' is rebuilt every time 'make' is run. Not a
    big issue, but a fixable one.

Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.