Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 23:10:15 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updated gperf? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9811282307360.1654-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <199811272139.NAA07693@vashon.polstra.com>
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On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, John Polstra wrote: > In article <Pine.OSF.4.05.9811280244510.16686-100000@bragg>, > Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> wrote: > > I've been playing around with the egcs snapshots, and newer ones rely on a > > modified version of gperf 2.7 (gperf 2.1 is the version currently in 3.0). > > Can someone who actually understands what gperf does: > > > > 1) pronounce whether 2.7 is suitable for inclusion in the base tree (i.e. > > backwards-compatible for our needs, or whatever), and > > I don't know. I'd suggest trying a make world with the new gperf in > the tree, and seeing what happens. Works fine, as far as I can tell.. > > 2) take a look at > > ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/infrastructure/gperf-2.7-19981006.pat > > and see whether this is a worthwhile patch to include? > > The patch appears to be incomplete, since it doesn't change any of > the documentation files. That makes it kind of hard to guess what > the patch does. It apparently adds a new command line option. But > what does the new option do? It scratches somebody's secret itch, > apparently. ;-) I've forwarded on the request to the egcs people..hopefully someone will either volunteer to make the doc changes, or explain enough about what the patch does so I can. Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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