-----Original Message----- From: Ian Lance Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 3:57 PM To: Andrew Pinski Cc: Mark Mitchell; Carlos O'Donell; gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Searching configured and relocated prefix.
Andrew Pinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jul 23, 2006, at 10:44 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > > "Me too." > > Except now you have suggested that we change the current behavior > which you already suggested at the GCC summit we should not do at > least not for a couple of release for warning people. You cannot have > it both ways, people already depend on this behavior, I am one > example. My general point at the gcc summit was not one about changing the compiler, although that was the context in which I raised it. It was that we should have more consideration of the needs of our users, and less consideration of the needs of our developers. As far as I am concerned, the relevant question on this issue is whether anybody other than toolchain developers depends on the current behaviour. I believe the answer is no. Since the current behaviour has various drawbacks which are clearly evident in organizations which use NFS widely, and since moreover I believe that most non-gcc- developers do not exepect the current behaviour, I believe that we should change it. Ian ------------------------------------------ All, I'm glad to see this issue finally being addressed. Especially since I've been trying to work around this since Nov. 2002. Especially since I discussed this on this mailing list in the past and Mark agreed that this problem should be fixed, hence the filing of bug report (enhancement) #17621, in Sep. 2004: <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17621> I also strongly agree with Danny Smith's email about this. There are precious few people who build their own compiler. Most people just want to use a compiler, and would rather it be built by other people. Rarely will an installed compiler be in the exact same location as where the compiler was built. And you can just about guarantee that is the case when it comes to Windows because of the compiler having to be built with either Cygwin or MinGW/MSYS. In that scenario, it is absolutely stupid to have the compiler search the built prefix. I'm sorry, but it's stupid for the FSF to assume that the only way a user will use the software is that they build it themselves. There should be an innate ability and a simple and easy method for relocation of the software. Eric Weddington
