Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 18:46:43 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <199801222346.SAA10463@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.93.980121150254.2863K-100000@acp3bf> (message from
	Hans-Bernhard Broeker on Wed, 21 Jan 1998 15:05:52 +0100 (MET))
Subject: Re: gcc 2.8.0
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> > I think the issue of the stub coded inside Binutils vs the one in
> > `stubify' should be resolved, before we can really claim that core
> > DJGPP and GCC/Binutils are independent of each other.  The fact that
> > the new Binutils can read the stub using an environment variable is a
> > step in the right direction, but I don't think we should expect too
> > many people to set up environment variables.
> 
> In other words: we should add the relevant env. variable to the
> distributed djgpp.env, either in the general section, or in named sections
> for each of the binutils that may write .exe files (strip, objcopy, ld.
> any others?) 

I think it should have a reasonable default, so that no environment
variables are needed for the majority of the cases.