To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: yet another question about gcc-2.3.3
From: alane AT wozzle DOT linet DOT org (J. Alan Eldridge)
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 22:24:15 EST
Organization: Disorganization

Stephen Turnbull <src4src!mcdhup!rutgers!ecolan.sbs.ohio-state.edu!turnbull> writes:

> Given that somebody (Alan E., I think it was) made the paranoid
> suggestion that this is all a plot by RMS to make it impossible to
> support Messy-DOG (sic) versions of GCC, maybe what we need to do is
> write an AWK/Perl script to do it on the entire GCC distribution.
> Then RMS's plot will fail, since we'll be ready the next time :->

That was a joke ..... 

But ... your idea isn't a terribly bad one, if one can do it
reliably.  I know neither awk nor perl, so I won't be of much help.
It's probably much better than doing it by hand every release of gcc.

Other ideas to automate the port, folks?


alane AT wozzle DOT linet DOT org (J. Alan Eldridge)
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