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On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Dan Kegel wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > it's not clear why the "getandpatch" script checks for values in > > the TARGET and TARGET_CFLAGS variables, since those variables are not > > used in this script. just a cut and paste thing, i assume. > > True, thanks. > > BTW I am tempted to reorganize the scripts like this: > 1. move all code into a single file, 'functions.sh', > as shell functions, one per build phase, probably ten functions in all > 2. turn crosstool.sh into > . functions.sh > followed by calls to each of the ten or so functions > The environment variable sanity checks that are now cut-and-pasted > all over the place would then be concentrated at the top of functions.sh. i've already done part of that, since it seemed clear that a single script with a number of internal functions was the cleanest design. my goal was to simplify the whole build process just so *i* could understand what was going on. in the process, i did remove some functionality -- just for my own use, i took out the whole download/wget ability. from my perspective, i can't see it being used so frequently that it needs to be automated. i just figured, if you know you're going to be using a certain set of gcc/glibc/binutils/etc. tarballs, just download them to start with and take it from there. i'm not suggesting that anyone else feels the same way, but to keep things simple for me, i just decided to do things that way. rday ------ Want more information? See the CrossGCC FAQ, http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/ Want to unsubscribe? Send a note to crossgcc-unsubscribe@sources.redhat.com
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