non coherent options, switches and descriptions

Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk
Tue Jan 15 11:43:00 GMT 2002


On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Neil Booth wrote:

> > There was general agreement, some time ago, that -V's current effect
> > was basically useless; perhaps it could be replaced by the binutils
> > effect.
> 
> Sounds like a plan to me 8-)

But please associate removing gcc -V (and -b), of such marginal utility as
they are, with installing the driver programs under such names as gcc-3.0
and i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc-3.0, to do their job properly by keeping the
driver programs around.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk



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