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From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Updated gperf?
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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


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