From: "Andrew Crabtree" <andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Rebuilding gcc -- cc1plus and gxx not made
Date: 11 Sep 1997 16:35:12 GMT
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Peter J. Farley III <pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org> wrote in article
<34173cba DOT 5872078 AT snews DOT zippo DOT com>...
> Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net> wrote:
> <Snipped>
> >Also, gxx is not part of gcc per se, but one of the utils. All it does
is
> >something like:
> >gcc $@ -lgpp -lstdcx -lm
> >in shell script format. You don't need to rebuild gxx.
> 
> Eli can correct me if I'm wrong on this, but gxx really *is* an exe in
> DJGPP, and not just one of the utils.
I'm not Eli but the above description of gxx is basically correct.  It is
not a shell script, but an exe.  It simply 
duplicates its own arg list, appends the libraries, and then execs gcc.  

Andrew