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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>:
> Hi,
> 
> instead of whining again about the split gcc spells I went ahead and
> made really split ones :)
> Just submitted all of them to devel (except for gcj, needs another test
> cast to finish first). gcc now installs only the C compiler and the gcc
> base stuff, the others (g++, g77, gcj, objc) install their respective
> compilers and runtimes and register themselves with gcc, so it's
> possible (as with a single gcc spell) to run gcc to compile all
> installed languages.
> The way the gcc build system works this makes compilation of all
> compilers together take a little bit longer than when they were in one
> spell (expect about a 50% increase in needed time), but I think the
> added flexibility is worth that. Especially since you only have to cast
> objc now if you want the Objective-C compiler instead of recompiling the
> whole compiler collection.
> 
> So what's missing right now? gcj, which will be in in some hours and
> ada, which will become a totally different spell. The gcc ada compiler
> is quite broken in gcc 3.4.x, so I'll write a spell for the latest gnat
> release, which is still the recommended ada compiler for linux (although
> it doesn't optimize as good as the gcc one).

Awesome, now we can have true dependencies upon a language, thanks Arwed (and
Treeve for getting this started)!

-sandalle

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