Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 17:21:26 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
cc: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, robert DOT hoehne AT gmx DOT net,
        djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: gcc 2.8.0
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On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> *) Create a program that merges all those fragments and builds the
>    actual %DJDIR%/djgpp.env file.

I don't like the idea of asking the user to run a program as part of an
installation.  I suspect they will forget to run it (they don't read
README's, remember?).  DJ's suggestion is automatic as it doesn't
require to set or run anything, and that is a Good Thing (IMHO). 

> This would mean less code bloat in crt1

I don't see how DJ's proposal will bloat the startup code, since the code 
to compute the basename of the executable from argv[0] is already there 
(it is required to find the [foo] section).  You just need to add a 
single call to open the file with that name; how much of a bloat is that?