On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 18:06 -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > If we're doing enough feature tests we need to cache the results, something > is > wrong.
I agree. I was just saying that it was possible (and it was necessary in my case because I had to check for many packages with pkg-config + get the location of their include files and library files). > How about not having that many tests? Certainly the option I would prefer. I don't see tcc as having nearly as many external dependencies as my project had. > Our ./configure step doesn't > take 15 minutes to run (unlike some of the gnu projects), and I'd rather have > the build take an extra 3 seconds than have the complexity of a configuration > cacheing layer. Absolutely agreed. But I don't expect it to be even that much. > I actually think the _easy_ way to > handle this is to generate all cross compilers by default and then > have a > small shell script create a symlink to the one that produces output > for our > host platform (if any). I would like that :) > Note that right now, the code doesn't work right if you build it > with -funsigned-char (which is why I added the flag to specify). Personally > I prefer -funsigned-char because it makes your ascii handling naturally 8-bit > clean, which makes things like utf8 handling easier. Not a _huge_ deal in a > compiler, but still... :) Absolutely agreed. -Peter _______________________________________________ Tinycc-devel mailing list Tinycc-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tinycc-devel
