On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Nils Bokermann wrote:
Hi!
I don't like the idea of a local (user) configuration file as GPC.CFG or ..gpcrc. There is a way of doing it in a makefile. If someone _needs_ a compiler which is a borland like compiler for standard, might there be a compile-time switch? Let's consider something like ../configure --try-to-be-a-borland-compiler or ../configure --use-standard-pascal.
Oh no! This is a support nightmare. Imagine people complaining "my gpc does XYZ when I feed it this ABC source!". Then we would have to find out _what_ GPC they have in first place. The confusion caused by rapidly changing GPC revsions and a number of different platform specific problems is enough, IMHO. Unless yet another option were added which would dump all options passed at build time, and _everybody_ would faithfully mention this in bugreports....
Greetings, JanJaap
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