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> Date: 18 Nov 1999 07:00:51 -0800
> From: Aaron Ardiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: GCC 0.5
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been using the GCC 0.5 distribution for a while now.
> I like it
> > because it has one Windows executable that installs
> everything that I need.
> > I don't have to install GCC, then install a patch, then new
> headers and then
> > some other thing. I find that quite confusing. However, GCC
> 0.5 uses the
> > Palm OS 2.x API and I'm wanting to take advantages of the
> 3.x API. Any idea
> > on when a new version of the GCC distribution will become
> available such
> > that all I have to do is install it and go?
>
> just download the new headers and unzip them into the m68k
> directory overwriting the current include files..
>
> cheers.
I don't quite know what your needs are, but I believe that it should always
be possible to keep different versions in parallel. In a good configuration
management environment, it should be guaranteed that when you rebuild an old
version of a program, you also reuse the same tools, libraries and include
files. Therefore, overwriting an old directory seems awkward to me. What I
have done (not with GCC 0.5, but with a version that contained 3.0
libraries) is change my directory structure into
m68k-palmos-coff\include\PalmOS 3.1 Support
m68k-palmos-coff\include\PalmOS 3.0 Support
Each of these directories then contains the header files including their
subdirectories.
Next I change the contents of the file
lib\gcc-lib\m68k-palmos-coff\2.7.2.2-kgpd-071097\include\PalmOS
from "!<symlink>../../../../../m68k-palmos-coff/include/PalmOS" to
"!<symlink>../../../../../m68k-palmos-coff/include/PalmOS 3.1 Support/Incs"
or to "!<symlink>../../../../../m68k-palmos-coff/include/PalmOS 3.0
Support/Incs" depending on what headers I want to use.
In fact I would like it even more if I could just use the command line of
gcc to indicate where my headers are, but I didn't get that to work yet.
