bug#11034: Binutils, GDB, GCC and Automake's 'cygnus' option
Miles Bader
miles@gnu.org
Tue Apr 3 23:53:00 GMT 2012
Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:
>> OK, you've all made clear you have your sensible reasons to have the '.info'
>
> ...
>> it available only though the new, undocumented option named (literally)
>> "hack!info-in-builddir". I hope this is acceptable to you.
> ...
>> *undocumented* option '!hack!info-in-builddir' (whose name should
>> made it clear that it is not meant for public consumption).
>
> So will this be called a hack forever, or will the naming be revisited
> before a release? IMO, either the feature is sensible, and there doesn't
> seem to be a good reason other users couldn't also use it, and hence it
> should get a non-hackish name and be documented; or it isn't sensible, and
> then it shouldn't exist. Why the second-class treatment?
I suspect there are better, cleaner, ways to accomplish the underlying
goal, but I suppose the gcc maintainers don't want to spend the time
fiddling around with their build infrastructure for such a minor
issue...
-miles
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