Re: (Doc ping [for news and manual]) -- [PATCH 14/14] the "compile" command

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>]

> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 08:42:34 -0600
> 
> Eli> That's not what I meant.  Suppose I have 2 compilers installed, one
> Eli> called 'gcc', the other 'gcc472'.  (They could also be in different
> Eli> directories, even not on PATH.)  The program I'm debugging was
> Eli> compiled with gcc472.  How will GDB know to invoke that executable?
> Eli> Also, how would it know the command-line arguments required to produce
> Eli> a code that will work well with the rest of the program being debugged
> Eli> (the code I compile can call functions in the program, right?)?
> 
> Phil> Tom could maybe answer this better.  There was recent work on the GCC
> Phil> triplet and PATH searching over on GCC for the plugin.
> 
> Yes, the new version searches the path for something matching the
> correct GNU configury triplet.

But the triplet is not enough, I could have more than one compiler
installed for the same triplet.

Besides, can we reliably assume that there's a compiler whose name
matches the triplet?  On my MinGW installation of GCC, I don't have
i686-pc-minwg32-gcc anywhere.

> See the gcc patch series for details.

I'd appreciate a URL (assuming this is somewhere in GCC mailing
lists).

Thanks.