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From: pardo@JUNE.CS.WASHINGTON.EDU
Newsgroups: gnu.g++.bug
Subject: 1.34.2 Makefile strangeness...
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Date: 28 Apr 89 19:14:12 GMT
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The `Makefile' for 1.34.2 (and maybe others) figures out what flags to
use by doing extensive comparisons of machine-dependent files.  This
seems kludgy to me for two reasons: first, because it reqires a bunch
of machine dependencies to be scattered through the makefile, and
second because it looks strange when I run a `make'.  The second is a
problem, because I don't expect to see `68000' when I'm making for a
VAX!

I'll suggest that a bunch of these things could be packaged up in to a
single machine-dependent shell script, e.g., `config.flags'.  Much as
config.g++ takes a machine specifier, `config.flags' could take a
machine specifier and a flag name.

For maintainence reasons, it might be preferable to bundle config.g++
and config.flags together.

I could then do

	config.g++ `machine`
	make TARGET=`machine`

Hope this is useful!

	;-D on  ( A user's strangeness... )  Pardo