X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: Mo McKinlay <mmckinlay AT gnu DOT org>, martin AT loewis DOT home DOT cs DOT tu-berlin DOT de,
        mrs AT windriver DOT com, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, gcc AT gcc DOT gnu DOT org
Subject: Re: GCC headers and DJGPP port 
In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 22 Jul 2000 05:09:42 EDT.
             <200007220909 DOT FAA11989 AT indy DOT delorie DOT com> 
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 10:10:38 -0600
Message-ID: <10216.964282238@upchuck>
From: Jeffrey A Law <law AT cygnus DOT com>
Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com


  In message <200007220909 DOT FAA11989 AT indy DOT delorie DOT com>you write:
  > GCC already talks to DOS: we have a working port of GCC since 1989,
  > when DJ Delorie first ported it.  We were tracking the GCC development
  > since then, and I don't think we missed any version (with the
  > exception of the EGCS vs GCC schism period, when we mostly used GCC
  > 2.8.1).  So GCC port is not something that is being born now.
  > 
  > What is different about the next release is that we would like GCC to
  > be built for DJGPP out of the box, with all the necessary quirks
  > integrated into the official GCC distribution.  Until now, building
  > GCC for DJGPP required a few custom changes and special scripts that
  > were not distributed with GCC.  For example, the headers that GCC
  > installs when you say "make install" were ignored--this is the issue
  > we are trying to figure out in this thread.
I would love to see this happen too, but I'm not going to agree to install
changes which are fundamentally wrong, such as overriding USER_H.  We also
have to be practical and realize that DOS is a severely braindamaged system
and we shouldn't compromise our ability to DTRT on other platforms just to
make DOS happy.

jeff