[linuxsh-dev] Re: [linux-sh:00764] Download page

[Greg B. <gn...@al...>]

Mitch Davis wrote:
> 
> > I also did some work towards building gcc-core but
> > I struck a few problems which slowed me down.  Does
> > anyone happen to know what the -F option to gperf
> > is supposed to do?
> 
> This is due to a problem with the way the files were
> checked into CVS.  The generated file got checked in before
> the source file, so gmake thinks it needs to be regenerated.

  Can't say I'm surprised.  I figured the perfect hash table of
keywords would be a fairly static entity and not subject to
change with the SH port.

> 
> You can either do as Niibe-san has suggested regarding gperf,
> or you can use "touch" as described in my earlier mail:
> 
>   http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/3076/0/3724263/
> 
> Any suggestions on how to fix this?

  You could make a trivial change to the produced file to make it's
CVS modification time newer.  Or add a checkout script to do the touch.

  But I might as well use the gperf patch; I had to build my own
gperf for sourceforge anyway.



Greg.
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