"Paul Edwards" <mutazi...@gmail.com> writes: > 2. If the normal way to do things is to parse the make -n output > with perl etc, that's fine, I'll do it that way. I was just wondering > if the proper way was to incorporate the logic into a Makefile > rule and get that rule repeatedly executed rather than just > having a simple "echo". It seems to me that having a generic > rule to execute an external script would be neater???
I'm not sure what you are suggesting here, but I do know that it wouldn't make sense for us to change the gcc Makefile to use a rule which executes an external script. The "normal way to do things" is to use GNU make. I think you are the first person trying to build gcc without it. Ian
